Self Aware

[altheskeptic]

Suppose man created a machine so complex it became self aware. How would the inventor(s) prove it? Can one person prove he is self aware to another person?

Is it like trying to explain a color to a blind person?

[Dodo25]

According to the current models of consciousness, any machine that passes the Turing Test is most likely self-aware.

In the Turing Test, an examineer asks questions (chat) which the machine has to answer. The test is passed if the examineer can't tell the difference between human test subjects and the machine.

Sounds easy? It isn't! The questions are hard and require a specific kind of thinking that doesn't just work with large memory capacity. Here's an example: http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20Articles/TheTuringTest.html

[altheskeptic]

According to the current models of consciousness, any machine that passes the Turing Test is most likely self-aware.

In the Turing Test, an examineer asks questions (chat) which the machine has to answer. The test is passed if the examineer can't tell the difference between human test subjects and the machine.

Sounds easy? It isn't! The questions are hard and require a specific kind of thinking that doesn't just work with large memory capacity. Here's an example: http://www.alanturing.net/turing_archive/pages/Reference%20Articles/TheTuringTest.html

I think a good test would be when the machine stared to rebel against its creator. When it started to have a will of its own. " I don't want to do this, I want to do that".