http://www.projectprometheus.com/

Will work become something people use to do?
What if bots become as or more creative and inventive as humans?

Can a bot go to space? Take human DNA to expand the human domain?

Bruce Duncan
Managing Director of Terasem Movement Foundation Inc.

First, as to the writing employed in the agreement (as one example only), any lawyer who writes a clause in the form of “(1) blah, blah, blah; (2) blah, blah, blah; OR (3) blah, blah, blah AND (4) blah, blah, blah” not only missed out on contracts class but high school freshman grammar as well (which goes to say that litigation is invited over whether all of the subclauses are alternatives to each other or combinations or just (2) and (3) are alternatives or whether (3) and (4) go together or are separate or what goes with what or what exactly the clause means – and, by the way, unintelligible contracts get construed against the drafter). Astonishingly poor.

Second – and more to the point – my comments were directed to this website – not yours – regarding their policy of pointing people to websites where they may unwittingly give away their life stories without so much as a mention of warning in that regard. While it is up to the individual – ultimately – to be responsible for themselves, a referring website that prides itself on its reputation should realize that that reputation will cause others to act simply because of something it says – and the website should act accordingly. I certainly do that in everything I do.

Of course, the fact that kurzweilai.net allowed you to reply rather than address the matter themselves only goes to show the degree to which your organizations are apparently in bed with each, without bothering to mention that in the original article. Quite disappointing over all and something that knocks my opinion of this site down more than a notch for me since now I will have to question the degree of interconnectedness and bias about everything written here.

Bruce Duncan
Managing Director

Terasem Movement Foundation Inc.

No, thanks.

In the future, you should consider such user agreements before writing an article since I’m sure many people will sign up simply because an article appeared on your website.

The downside of the demo is that while it is interesting, none of the attendees known Bina Aspen, whom Bina48′s personality is based on. So while Bruce (from Lifenaut, who brought Bina48) knows Bina Aspen, and can see the similarities to the original person, that’s impossible for us in the audience to see.

Obviously it’s difficult to onboard all the necessary data, but what will make a more convincing demo is when there’s a Bina48 equivalent for someone with a well-known personality, so that many more people can experience the effect of recognizing aspects of that person’s personality.

Here are some of my session notes from their panel: http://www.williamhertling.com/2012/03/robot-panelists-ai-and-future-of.html

Thanks,
Will

I consider such light treatment of consciousness to be very dangerous. If people think they can “reanimate” consciousness with a file, they are likely also to think the original consciousness is expendable.

Here is some required reading:

http://consc.net/online

You should keep reading papers on this site until you have either exhausted the list or you comprehend the problem.