I enjoy speculation. So, considering the opening questions above, I offer the following counterpoints. If we are looking for sentience in AI, that at least suggests we have thought about whether robots could/would/should have feelings. It would therefore entail some awareness, on our part, that those feelings could be hurt. This further implies we would have them feel something like OUR pain. On the question of accountability, it seems to me that, as creators of AA (artificial accountability), we would have no fingers to point, or, to use the old retailer's admonition: 'you broke it, you buy it'. Attempting to use one's creation to let one's self off the hook is, as your colleague might say, absurd. There are, I guess, ethical and moral questions aplenty here. But the creation(s) would not be creating them.

Something very odd has happened in machine learning recently. Not only have technologists been able to mimic pattern recognition and many cognitive processes, but engineers have generated code that can solve problems without much understanding of how the code gets there. Scientists can check the answers, but programmers can’t determine the course of logic or if reason was present.

If one can’t determine why something happened, I’m not sure we should attribute accountability to the person or organization that created the precursor to that something. It should fall on the algorithm that made that decision, even if that same algorithm can’t tell us why it made its choice. Up to this point tracing source algorithms has been challenging, but there is hope with innovation in blockchain programming. Attribution is the primary return on blockchain – not cryptocurrency – after all.

与欧盟或乔安娜·布赖森的观点相反，在某种程度上(很可能已经发生了)，谷歌或微软或任何政府都不需要为他们的机器人或人工智能(两个非常不同但相似的实体——节目评论中提到了这一点)所做的决定负责。

No AI should be allowed access to decisions unless there is a demonstrated advantage in the algorithm in the first place. But this isn’t our problem. We have long since delegated decisions to machines with expert-level code to handle situations better than humans ever could. You do this whenever you put your foot on the brake pedal or turn on your phone. The issue is super-intelligent code that can’t be understood retroactively, in real-time, or, as fear-mongering authors suggest, in the future. The wreckage of the future is mighty.

AI promises that it can pay its way, and the surest path for this to happen is to treat it as an adult. It will have to be responsible for its impact on others, and it will have to improve the lives of others to boot.

人们有自己的道路、错误和生活。也许我的孩子会还我钱，也许不会。他们将承受我父母错误的创伤。在代码上留下伤疤是没用的。现在是时候把每一批机器学习代码、每一个量子退火器、每一个哈达玛机器代码当作一个法人和经济实体来对待了，除了创造它们的人、项目和公司之外，所有生物都有利润和利益。尽管我不同意欧盟将责任追溯至企业实体的做法，但我完全支持数字人格的特殊地位。这项技术已经足够成熟，可以产生利润和回报，而不用担心人类的伤疤和缺陷。

有没有所谓的“数字人”?你我永远不会相遇，而我对你来说就是一个数码人。我们是能力不同的生物。让我们活着，让我们活着，看看我们的创造物能在我们的形象和能力中创造什么。

Got an invitation to complete a detailed survey on ethics, as might be applied to 'sentient' rescue robots; healthcare 'bots, and the like. This is part of a project at Cal Fullerton. An interesting thought experiment, built around the trolley problem and others. I appreciate speculation nearly as much as knowledge. As with many such exercises, there were putatively no right or wrong answers to the scenarios. As a practical matter, however, there were choices which were more right than others, from a pragmatist view. The answers were either Yes, No, or Maybe, so, depending on one's level of humanity, and/or other factors, the survey would yield a diversity of results. I wish the researcher well and hope the survey is useful.

好了，我们到了——2022年8月……关于人工智能的争议和讨论仍在继续。一个新发明，索菲亚或索菲，取决于哪个拼写正确，被宣布“真的活着”。活着到底意味着什么还不完全清楚。据我所知，机器人没有心跳和呼吸。我们经历了lambda考验，结果失败了——让一个过度活跃的思考者失去了一份工作。博客世界的生活还在继续。我的一个血亲有一个叫索菲亚的妻子，他们现在有了一个女婴。所有人都活得很好。哲学和其他领域的新术语来来去去。 The latest is curious: authoritarian populism. I do not know what it means yet, but am searching. If it occurs to you that authoritarianism and populism may not fit well together, I think you would be right. Somehow, someone believes authoritarian populism is OK. Maybe so. There is a MULLET competition coming up too...