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Comment author: timtyler 11 January 2011 09:39:00PM *  0 points [-]

If what I'm saying is correct, this is great news as it means that a sufficiently intelligent machine that has been exposed to a wide range of input will form good models of happiness, wisdom, kindness etc.

Hopefully. Assuming server-side intelligence, the machine may initially know a lot about text, a reasonable amount about images, and a bit about audio and video.

Its view of things is likely to be pretty strange - compared to a human. It will live in cyberspace, and for a while may see the rest of the world through a glass, darkly.