Zagan wrote:
> 
> "Wolfgang Lorenz" <wlorenz65@web.de> wrote in message
> news:c705if$ihs$1@online.de...
> > > Their first task would be to remove the biological
> > > infestation from the third planet orbiting the
> > > insignificant star called Sol.
> >
> > Intelligent robots will not carry out such a stupid order.
> 
> [Zagan]
> "Intelligent" robots does not imply "free-will" robots, so such 
> robots, while intelligent, may have no choice but to follow 
> instructions given to them.
> // Jim
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AI implies learning from experience, not programming, but they are
really the same, in that this is NOT "free will". 

WE don't have free will either, because we cannot change our beliefs
about anything without an external cause making us choose to do that,
and then we cannot prevent ourselves from doing it either. 

We are beings of cause and effect, just like a robot, but we are
self-aware in that our mind models us as a character in a story 
called Our Life, and when robots can do that as a means of analysis
and planning to the degree we do it, then they will be self-aware 
just like we are.

Still, there is NO such thing as supposed "Free Will".
Our brain works by chemical cause and effect, and the 
causes are either external, or internal to our brain 
but still not precisely "ourself".

-Steve
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