From: Kaj Sotala (xuenay@sci.fi)
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 14:24:18 MST
> it would be programmed to take data as an input and perform analysis on the
> data, it also would be given the ability to self-improve, and lets assume we
> also succeed in making it self-aware. Would it just sit their idle because
> no goals had been specified?
Yes.
Also, giving it the ability to self-improve wouldn't do anyone any good
if it didn't have a goal to improve itself towards. (Maybe it could
start to perform self-modification at random, if it was specifically
designed to do so - but random changes would most likely just break
things, and even "conduct random changes in your own code" is a goal.)
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