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

On 2006-03-30 10:53:38 -0500, "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@xxxxxxxxx> said:

But what do you think about the examples I mentioned, like possibly
Corewars programs and viruses? I haven't looked at them closely; maybe
all to date have operated under such restricted environments that they
don't dynamically observe where they currently fit into the world.
(Because too much intelligence is bad for survival in those
environments.)

But I can imagine a virus which keeps track of its instances; and tries
to alter its own code to slip under the radar, depending on what
enemies it finds.

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

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