http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/ Engadget Comments for UK report predicts rights for robots; your AIBO wants a tax break http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/]]>Dec 20th 2006 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/
"It is also logical that such rights are meted out with citizens’ duties, including voting, paying tax and compulsory military service."
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But will they run Linux?]]>Dec 20th 2006 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Dec 20th 2006 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/
Thanks for clarifying.

Well folks, the whole AI debate is settled. Just be a complete ignoramus and all the worlds issues will just fade away. Move along, nothing to see, nothing to do...]]>Dec 20th 2006 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/
The complexities of sentience boil down to one's consciousness. Sure, there are philosophical questions of exactly what consciousness is. This is the point where you, Beau, need to open your mind a bit. There are actually many educated people who agree that consciousness is more than just the ability to make one's own decisions and say "I am conscious" in a persuasive manner.

A robot may one day pass the Turing test, and appear completely sentient to an outsider. But the fact remains that it's still an artificial device running a program to mimic consciousness. That's not sentience. To arbitrarily declare that it is, is lunacy on the part of self-important engineers who think they hold the keys to life.

Those who believe any robot is sentient are little more than gullible people tricked by the machine's lifelike performance. If we all thought more like the programmers who built it, we'd see the act for what it is: microchips and subroutines designed to convince the unknowing. Charlatanism!

I should write a computer program with no A.I. whatsoever, with the sole purpose of begging and pleading for people to recognize it as sentient. It'll cry. It'll make puppy-dog faces. It'll demand equal rights. And then when I show people the source code, they'll vilify me and call me a bigot.]]>Dec 20th 2006 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/
I think it's presumptuous to assume that robotic life will not reach a level of sentience equivalent to a dog in the next hundred years given the rapid pace of advancement. In 1906 we had the lightbulb, today...look at the frontpage of Engadget.]]>Dec 20th 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/Who says so?, technology keeps evolving and you won't live forever to know the answer.

"A program is not life"
It's a way to process outside information to determine subsequent action, a brain is just such a device. Wether it's life or not doesn't matter, sometimes there are diferent solutions to achieve the same goal.
In my view machines will have the potential to excel us in every area sooner or later.]]>Dec 20th 2006 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/
On that basis I can doubt that you are sentient, as being alive does not qualify one as sentient per se.]]>Dec 20th 2006 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/uk-report-predicts-rights-for-robots-your-aibo-wants-a-tax-brea/
FWIW, I 'jumped down' that guys throat for making a statement. Despite my thoughts (which are backed up by reading books on Artificial Life), I know the question or whether or not sentience is in the cards for man-made machines is far from settled.
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