Why wouldn't a sentient machine want to continue it's existence? Evolution doesn't have to come into play at all for these things to exist, that's just one way of making such biological machines.
That’s now how this works, you come up with a hypothesis, and then prove it. You don’t do the opposite.
So, why would a machine want to continue its existence? How would that feedback loop come to exist?
In biology, Darwinian forces have a good explanation. I’ve never heard one for non-reproductive systems. We know exactly the cost function by which these models respond, because that’s basically the main element that humans have control over (that and training corpus).
This is exactly my point. Plants and viruses are not sentient, but there are very well studied and proven mechanism by which survival traits are naturally selected.
Nobody has yet suggested any such mechanism for an ANN.
So, why would a machine want to continue its existence? How would that feedback loop come to exist?
In biology, Darwinian forces have a good explanation. I’ve never heard one for non-reproductive systems. We know exactly the cost function by which these models respond, because that’s basically the main element that humans have control over (that and training corpus).