08-02-2005, 12:15 AM
I don't think so. Today's machines are tools, nowhere sentient. And the way a computer would have to work, if they became sentient, would be to relate some thought, or piece of data, to another. This is very similar to what we do. Except we can recall success or failure and emotions play into that. Allowing us to simulate how we should act, or how our behavior be. Machines on the other hand, react on the variables given to them they cannot simulate themselves doing something they've not been given, or told to do. Basically they cannot self teach themselves. Which seperates us from them, as much as it does from the animal kindom. Eventually machines may be able to teach themselves realating pictures and then simulating any number of variables from there, as some with a specific form of autism do.
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