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Re:The Dawn of AI: How to ensure the promise outweighs the p... by DanAndersen on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:26AM (#9505737)
Don't think of "wanting" as a soul-like action of a little person in the machine. "Wanting" is a shorthand for anything that is the result of a goal system and autonomy. In the simplest sense, giving a drone a map of its surroundings and giving it a location as the goal for its path-finding optimization algorithms, the drone now "wants" to go to that location.

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