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by defen 3446 days ago
> AI will only have a will of its own it is designed as such

Humans weren't designed to have a will, and yet we seem to have them.

> it would have a reinforcement learning system on top of lower sensory and action modules.

Isn't that what OpenAI is doing with Universe? It's simulated sensory/action modules now but I don't see why they couldn't be hooked up to real ones.
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josh2600 3446 days ago
> Humans weren't designed to have a will, and yet we seem to have them.

I have no idea how you could possibly infer this.

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defen 3445 days ago
Which part? I don't think humans were designed - we're probably the result of an evolutionary process without intentional design - but "humans were designed by God to have free will" would be a counter to my statement, yes.

If your complaint is my claim that we have a will, I'm using the common-sense version encoded into our legal and cultural system. I agree that we don't have a good concept of what intentions are, or how they causally connect to actions, but I do know that for at least some of my actions I experience something called "intent" before I undertake the actions.

My overall point was that the capacity for intent can arise through an evolutionary process without being designed in, but it does rest on the two assumptions I just listed.

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