| [ KAIST ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): guest (123) <dialup22.cs.unc.> 날 짜 (Date): 2002년 11월 8일 금요일 오후 05시 45분 29초 제 목(Title): Re: 퀼리아? IMO, the concept of 'pain' crucially depends on memory and survival. Why do we feel pain? Because it is bad for our survival. (If your fingers are burnt, it's hard to catch animals or climb rocks. Less chance of survival.) So, what is the role of pain? It is the most efficient mechanism to force the body from danger. Once you burnt your finger to a glowing red piece of charcoal, you don't try to pick it up again, however cute it looks. Indeed, it is so strong that it defies curiosity, another crucial feature of all the intelligent beings we know of! So, how can you make an AI feel pain? Easy, at least in (my) theory. Give it a concrete form of existence, or something equivalent to it. Define 'pain' as whatever that threats the form of existence. (If it is powered by electricity, then put some acceleration sensor on the battery.) Hard-wire the curcuit so that it should immediately respond to the sensor signal, in such a way to reduce the signal ASAP. (It doesn't have to be good --- it can learn later.) So, if you try to wrench away its battery, it will immediately run from you --- or even bite you, if it has teeth. (Wow, that'd be cool.) Moreover, give it some memory, so that whenever a similar situation arises, it will behave in order to minimize the chance of it ever being caught in the same 'injury'. Voila, you don't only give pain, you also give fear! Next time you appear in the lab, it will run and hide beneath the desk, just like a dog would if you had tried before to tear its heart away. Now it absolutely does not matter if it generates a human scream or a human laughter as a side effect. You will merely think, "Wierd. This machine screams like a laughing child!" After all, cats cry their love song in the voice of a starving baby, so what's particularly wierd with a robot that laughs with pain? |