Re: Paths to Uploading

John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 01:47:59 -0500

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Billy Brown <bbrown@conemsco.com>

>It also doesn't get tired, and it won't get bored or distracted unless you
>want it to.

An AI that didn't know when it should be bored would not be much of an AI. Boredom is a wonderful thing, when it's working properly it keeps you from "exploring" endless loops. I would even go so far as to say that if you found a way to give a machine good boredom detecting skills then you'd be 80% of the way toward a true AI because then it would know the proper area to aim its finite mental firepower at.

John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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