Luciano
Floridi issued a challenge to scientists in the world in
2005 to prove that robots can display the human trait of self-awareness
through a knowledge game called the "wise man" test. It was a venture he
didn't ever see being achieved in the foreseeable future. A decade
later, the Oxford professor's seemingly unattainable challenge has been
met.
But the professor says there's a
bigger challenge he wants robots to accomplish: self-awareness in real
time.
"Real time" self-awareness means
robots acting upon new situations that they are not pre-programmed for,
and translating how to act into physical movements. This is a serious
challenge that Bringsjord has not tapped into because
self-awareness algorithms are still separate from a robot's body. If
robots could work in real time, mind-to-body, he says, we would break
through major barriers that could result in scenarios such as droids
that act as our personal chauffeurs.
Source ~ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/man-created-worlds-first-self-171148562.html
What does this mean? It means that since we are created information, we can create too. But, should we is the bigger question. Any program that is AI will ultimately ask the greater cosmic question, If I am then why and what for and who did it?
That might be so difficult to imagine but why then can't we imagine our creator. Maybe we refuse to acknowledge that there is one. AI programs could do the same and think that they are the originals. Are we guilty of that? Are we saying that man is the end and beginning of all things? It seems so.
So, should we create AI robots? If we can't accept our creator, likely they won't either; unless we program it in. Many Christians say God did that and we still reject that information coded into our DNA.
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