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Re:Did HAL Commit Murder? by Digit-Al on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:51PM (#30399445)
> A landmine is programmed to attack a target of a specific weight when it enters a specific area.

You've literally just said it is programmed. If it is programmed, how can it be autonomous?

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Re:Did HAL Commit Murder? by karpierz on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:26PM (#30436388)
Because it kills without consulting the people who put it there.

AI is also programmed; it attacks when the score returned by the threat function exceeds a threshold.

Unless we're talking about AGI, in which case I misunderstood and assumed we were talking about AI that we can currently make.

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