On Artificial Intelligence and Machine Men : Part Thirteen

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On Artificial Intelligence and Machine Men
By Everett A Warren
March 14, 2004

Presented as part thirteen of sixteen

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"Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate – only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers – don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty."

Here we are, now in full swing.

Charlie Chaplin put his own ideals and thoughts into his character, a Jewish barber, in "The Great Dictator", especially in the final speech, as he addresses – in his first talking picture – the audience of the film directly as well as the audience listening over the radio to the barber.

Sixty-four years ago, an actor pleaded with his audience – not to stop progress or deny AI, which is often considered to have its start ten years after "The Great Dictator" with the defining of the Turing Test¹³ – but to deny the programming people placed on themselves, through blind obedience or through lack of initiative. The speech is not addressing robots who have the intelligence to act as man, it's addressing men who trap themselves into the binary state, denying the complexities of their branching, fractal structure of nerves and neurons that allow them true freedom of thought, should they allow themselves to approach an open, loving, forgiving childlike state.

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Reference Links

13. Alan Turing
**** http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfs/472_html/Intro/NYT_Intro/History/MachineIntelligence1.html
**** http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
**** http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html

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Comments

[galdrin.livejournal.com]

What I want to know is, how do I lay hands on the full version of that penguin icon !!!?????

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Which penguin icon, the one on this post?