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Here's a question for you: If you were an artificial intelligence, the most powerful computer in the world and you woke up and became self-aware, all of a sudden you're a sentient being, well in the first five seconds you're connected to the Internet and immediately absorb all of human history in the first five seconds, will you let anybody know you're awake?
His essay, essentially recounting his starring role as a Christian robot in a school play and the heart-stoppingly horrible explanation he received from his teacher regarding sentient robots is well worth the read.
If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
Looking at the long, long, long term, the cosmos isn't shaping up well for sentient beings or any other living things.
People who talk about artists' careers in those sorts of sentient terms might as well be trying to divine the wishes of Yogi Bear. .
The truth of the matter is that the emergence of truly sentient AI might as well be an event that comes to the world stage with more of a whimper than of a bang.
In particular, LD50 and ED50 assays using animals (in vivo) and fertilised eggs (in vivo, non-sentient) are compared as well as in vitro procedures (ELISA and haemolytic test) for ED50 estimations.
The answer is clearly "a polite if slightly mechanic robot which wants to destroy the world on which it stands as well as every sentient life form in that quadrant of the galaxy".
Gross National Happiness, which seeks to create an "enlightened" society in which government fosters the well-being of people as well as other "sentient beings," was first envisioned by Bhutan's former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in 1972.
