Re: What language will be used to write the first self aware program?

Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-mac.com> writes:
Yes, but think of the level of AI necessary for such a hypothetical
piece of code to be truly self aware. How, for example, could it know
that it is not running in a virtual machine? (a real world problem
since hoisting the entire OS into a virtual machine is apparently a
viable avenue of attack for malicious code)
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1936666,00.asp>

We need to include hardware timing functions to detect this...


We humans on the other hand can know if we are inside the Matrix ;^).

It's not obvious.


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