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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by apk-d on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:32PM (#18963353)
What makes you think a mouse (71M neurons) has agency\free will? Does a cockroach (1M neurons), fruit fly (250K), jellyfish (5k) have agency? I don't think we're gonna get far by relying on a phenomenon that we can't clearly define or even (externally) observe.
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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by daxorid on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:29PM (#18963788)
Indeed. Human beings have many, many examples to suggest that we lack agency, as well. Why do addiction, obesity, crimes of passion, etc exist?

Without the baggage of the limbic system and dopamine-seeking behaviors, it's quite easy to argue that an artificial intelligence is potentially capable of even greater degrees of agency than humans.

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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by goatlover on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:53PM (#18964777)
That doesn't mean we lack agency, it just means agency is complicated by other factors. It's not an either-or thing.
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Re:Ray Kurzweil: AI is still on course to outpace human inte... by ntsplnkv2 on Monday January 21, 2019 @05:57PM (#18964421)
Many people overcome these addictions, though.
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