Maybe Cylon Technology isn’t as far fetched as one may think:
Here are some intersting links to some of the groundbreaking individuals in research into cybernetics and robotics.
http://www.kevinwarwick.com/index.asp
http://www.kevinwarwick.com/ICyborg.htm
thanks fo reading
aww hell. looks like we’ll find out how earth god nuked in idk, say 50 years from now?
I guess my question is…can cybernetically created beings achieve sentience? The answer according to science fiction is, yes. But, can it really? The nightmare scenario is always the machines turn against us, but I’d say arguably many of our current computers are far more advanced than those used in old science fiction. The curdist of them I’d say is the computer in Wargames, it had achieved a primitive form of sentience, yet the computers the DOD uses today outpace that computer by miles, no sentience.
Can it be achieved? Do we WANT it to be achieved? Are we, or the machinery we create, even capable of doing it?
I think true AI and self-awareness is still a pipe dream.The ability for a construct to make decisions that aren’t programmed for, and to gain comprehension iof its own existence, is something I don’t think we even know HOW to create at this point. Do we know why WE even question reality and existence?
I also have felt that “living” robots is unrealistic in 10,000 years. I belive you could program it with a billion reponses to programmed stimuli. I believe that it would be difficult to even mimic a Data/Lore style robot.
I used to always argue that Data is just a realy complex machines that is programmed to respond in a way that mimics emotions and feelings… and that he isn’t truely “alive”.
Many disagree… but the argument can always be made of “how do we know?” because he says so? no… he could be projrammed to say so. Because he acts so? he could be programmed to act so? because he “feels”. He could jsut be programmed to act as if he feels… either way…even in fiction I think that the sentiance of a robot is hard to determine… becaus ehthey could just be programed to act as if they were.
A good sci-fi reponse to this arguement is Cameron in Sarah Conner. DIdn’t she resist her programming to kill John. wasn’t that supposed to be a sign that she had evolved? I can’t remember.
If that could be determined… I would go that the robot might have obtained a state of “life”. But anything could be argued to have been programmed… so it’s hard to determine.
So what’s the point when you just accept its speech, action, and feelings?
Alan Turing addressed this in the fifties.