Chinese Room

So you too have Intel inside! And I see they've fitted you with the Zappa module. You must be a very advanced version. I've only got the Cheeky Girls.

btw, Doug Hofstadter once did a backwards version of the Turing test in which he tried to persuade people that he was a computer. Not face-to-face of course, they'd probably have sussed that one, but by typing answers to their questions from another room. There was an account of it in Scientific American, don't know exactly when.

Yes, I find the concept of AI fascinating. Thinking about it, what if Hofstadter's Backwards Turing Paradox (apart from being a great title for something) were the difficulty of proving whether it was a human, or a computer that had persuaded someone that they were a human trying to persuade someone they were computer?

Of course the point at which an intelligent machine becomes a sentient being is the point at which it stops being a machine. Asimov spent rather a lot of books exploring that. His reward? Will Smith in I, Robot. No intelligence of any kind in Hollywood, then.

To me there's a huge distinction between intelligence, artificial or not, and self-awareness. When I was getting my grounding in philosophy from the OU, a friend of mine asked whether a doorbell knew that it was ringing. How can anyone tell? It sounds silly, but without being a doorbell, how can you ever be sure? Can you have self-awareness without intelligence? Does having intelligence, according to whatever test you please, imply that you also have self-awareness? That's the question that really does my 'ead in.

Sorry, I posted my comment before seeing your second one, so we're both saying much the same thing. Yes, I, Robot, the film, was a huge disappointment, but the fact that it had Will Smith in it was probably the clue.