AI and animalistic alterior motivation...

From: Rob Harris (rob@hbinternet.co.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 10:11:11 MST


>A moralist who designs a AI and gives the investigation
>of this problem priority over everything else will send the machine into a
infinite loop.
>To make maters worse, you may not even be able to prove it's futile, that
the issue
>is either false or true but unprovable, so I don't think it would be wise
to hardwire
>a AI to keep working on any problem until an answer is found.

In order for this to be possible, the problem would have to be
Turing.......definable!
An arbitrary subjective animal concept will not be communicable to an AI,
unless you program the acceptance of facts without premises....and then what
have you achieved?



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