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First letter of Oz to the NG

Kooter cbowling at mindspring.com
Fri Jul 30 06:23:54 EST 1999


Ken Collins <KPaulC at email.msn.com> wrote in message
news:ekcFnfG1#GA.153 at cpmsnbbsa05...

<snip>

> of course, 'AI' 'motivation' can be tailored, but in doing so, it ceases
to
> be 'AI' and is just another mechanism lacking Free Will.

Humans don't have 'free will'.  We are severly constrained by social
requirements.  Does that mean that we are also 'just another mechanism
lacking free will'?

I don't see a connection between intelligence and free will.  Slaves did
what their owners wanted but at the same time some were considered very
intelligent.

Motivation is the thing that drives us towards a goal.  Whether the
motivation is caused by hunger or a subroutine in a program is irrelevant.







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