5 Jun
2016
5 Jun
'16
5:40 a.m.
On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 13:38:03 -0700
Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
It's easy to argue that a machine has no soul,
etc.
But, is machine produced music (or anything else for
that matter)
really just machine produced music? Or is it music produced by a real
human who has directed or even created a machine to be an extension
of himself?
It will depend how much 'freedom' the machine has. Yes, persons built
it, but aren't those persons making their utmost effort to develop a
machine that can come up with decisions taken on its own, independent
from the creators ? Isn't that the premise of artificial intelligence ?
If not, we are also made, somehow. Biological machines. But we think we
are free.
As a spin to this, Elon Musk, of Telsa, SpaceX, Paypal, etc, declared
yesterday that "we are ‘almost definitely’ living in a Matrix-style
simulation"