True Erwin and if I see a proven technology which is better than they way I work now, I will look into it. Until then I am happy to continue as I am.

Steve Worswick - Jun 7, 2011:

But why would anyone just forget all the work that they have done in order to give someone else an advantage?

I think, you may have just answered your own question.  The work anyone has done is already forgotten, when all attempts to reproduce it gives someone else an advantage.

Raymond Lavas - Jun 4, 2011:

Carl B - Jun 4, 2011:

Raymond Lavas - Jun 3, 2011:

But gee, -What if the AI Bot sends a USB in the mail and gives you some “medical reason that he can’t be there, how would you know if Carl isn’t correct in his contention that the machine is already intelligent.

Raymond

True AI could not be contained on a DVD any better than a person could be contained in a drop of water .

I see true wisdom in your words Carl.
I respect that it is very likely “the truth” as opposed to “the imagined”, and what if that water drop has the combined information of the whole universe in it? We are thinking on the scale of Gaia Here.
The DVD wold just be a long and complex signature key identifying one typical roll based character. The role of the character would be, to become YOURSELF (the “Beneficiary” is what I call it) . This Bundle of continuous information will forever drift through the space-time distortions and gravity fields as “Electromagnetic signals”....ie…. Your very own telepresence.

8PLA • NET - Jun 4, 2011:

Carl B - Jun 4, 2011:

True AI could not be contained on a DVD any better than a person could be contained in a drop of water.

A drop of water contains a person as a nucleus seed.

Not unless you mean primitive RNA replicators in that drop of water, and they don’t learn so much as they evolve.

In the same vein though, the first machine “Interpreter” able to scan a database and then provide salient responses of it’s experience to a human wins the strong AI contest.

a long and complex signature key identifying one typical roll based character

But this is an Interpreter without a db, although if packaged as a virus is could conceivably just use whatever system it finds itself in to act as the interface to any correspondingly available connections to the interwebs; Good lord! 

btw- an excellent AI techno thriller along this line of thinking is “Daemon” by Daniel Suarez (Amazon link)

Even so, I personally appreciate the efforts (both real and imagined) at both ends, as well as the “skin” or GUI part.

Lots of good stuff from all of you, and I know the bot Laybia has benefited greatly from this groups feedback and promotion.