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Re:In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Marketers by mirimir on Sunday July 30, 2017 @01:37AM (#14884579)
> A living thing has motivation created and honed by the need to reproduce.

Why not the same for a machine? I mean, after all, we are fundamentally machines. Just made of organic nanobot stuff.

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Re:In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Marketers by scotty79 on Sunday July 30, 2017 @06:30AM (#14885354)
Sure, but to reach current state we needed the motivation to survive and reproduce. Otherwise we'd go extinct in the meantime.

If we build AI as a fresh, state of the art object, withouth evolutionary history it doesn't need any motivation that evolved entities must have had to evolve.

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Re:In a Robot Economy, All Humans Will Be Marketers by mirimir on Sunday July 30, 2017 @05:44PM (#14887983)
OK, but maybe designers would want machines to evolve. That's a standard approach at software level, right? So why not at hardware level too?

But of course, that could be a dangerous path ;)

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