Sorry. Human rights for automata, robots and "fifth generation"
computers. CP

R. Gancie/C.Parcelli wrote:
>
> Not Pound Materials per se. But the richness of the possibilities of
> such materials for poetry. I hope you are right about the "overoptimism"
> of the pursuit of human rights for computers. But the push has huge
> corporate interests behind it, and corporations are already considered
> 'individuals' in a court of law which is quite an ontological [e.g.
> expansion of legal taxonomies] slight of hand in and of itself. CP Tim
> Bray wrote:
> >
> > At 09:44 PM 02/06/01 -0400, R. Gancie/C.Parcelli wrote:
> > >Because of the broad commercial applications in industry, the U.S.
> > >Congress
> > >and the courts will in the near future be taking up the question of
> > >whether or not to grant
> > >"human rights" to automata, or robots.
> >
> > This posting is technically overoptimistic.  Among other things
> >
> >  - Von Neumann provided one of the stepping stones that may get
> >    us to intelligent machines, but not the biggest
> >  - Machines are not remotely close to acting intelligent.
> >  - The decades-long quest to make them intelligent has foundered
> >    on the rock of our ignorance of how our own  minds work.
> >
> > One of these decades, these issues will become material.  Er,
> > where does EP come in? -Tim