Defining Life

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Original post by Code_Dark
Can an AI be alive?

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Original post by Code_Dark
After an in-depth discussion in #gamedev, I decided to extend this conversation to all the forum-junkies. What is life? Why must it be organic? Wikipedia defines life as some that has:

# Growth
# Metabolism, consuming, transforming and storing energy/mass; growing by absorbing and reorganizing mass; excreting waste
# Motion, either moving itself, or having internal motion
# Reproduction, the ability to create roughly exact copies of itself
# Response to stimuli - the ability to measure properties of its surrounding environment, and act upon certain conditions.

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#Pseudo Code

while(1)
{
 reproduce() #reproduces onto a random computer on network
 gather_data() #talks to the computer user, "learns", AND since it grows, it''s metabolizing information in a sort of twisted way
 communicate() #communicates to other worms to spread data
 resist_deletion() #incase a malicous worm wants to delete this worm
 evolve() #doubles itself, changes a random bit on the clone, if clone crashes, revert back to original, repeat
}

 

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Original post by RedBitsOfYarn
Well, you could make a worm that lives off of the world''s computing power. It''d simply make a clone of itself onto everyone''s computer, and sometimes respond to the user of said computer, and fend off virii and the such. In fact, that''d be a good idea even if it would be prone to abuse...

#Pseudo Code

while(1)
{
 reproduce() #reproduces onto a random computer on network
 gather_data() #talks to the computer user, "learns", AND since it grows, it''s metabolizing information in a sort of twisted way
 communicate() #communicates to other worms to spread data
 resist_deletion() #incase a malicous worm wants to delete this worm
 evolve() #doubles itself, changes a random bit on the clone, if clone crashes, revert back to original, repeat
}

  

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So if you can create a machine that can reproduce and learn, would that not be living? It could be similar to primitive animals.

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Original post by Code_Dark
[...]Wikipedia defines life as some that has:

# Growth
# Metabolism, consuming, transforming and storing energy/mass; growing by absorbing and reorganizing mass; excreting waste
# Motion, either moving itself, or having internal motion
# Reproduction, the ability to create roughly exact copies of itself
# Response to stimuli - the ability to measure properties of its surrounding environment, and act upon certain conditions.

What do you think? Can an AI be alive? Silicon-based life on other planets?[...]

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Original post by RedBitsOfYarn
Mabye, because it IS alive?

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while(!dead)
{
live();
}

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