Transitional stages from Machine to Sentient Being
- Thinking machines
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- Special purpose: limited as in chess
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- Multiple purpose: Two or more related skills
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- General purpose thinking machine: Artificial Intelligence
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- Conscious machines
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- One we believe to be conscious (passes limited Turing Test)
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- A machine that believes itself to be conscious (and alive!)
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- A truly sentient machine (one we accept as conscious and alive)
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- Human-equal or superior machines (Sentient Being)
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- One we believe to be conscious and intelligent (Turing Test)
Such a machine would appear to have emotions.
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- Machine, conscious and intelligent, with real emotions
For example, it would demand the rights of an independent being.
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- The superior machine would find a way to acquire those rights, i.e., not relying upon us to grant them.
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