1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

[Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 09:15:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:20:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
>> based on one hell of a gigantic assumption: That consciousness 
>> is a natural consequence of a sufficiently large neural net. 
>> It's a fine and interesting idea, but PURELY speculative, with 
>> zero evidence and not even any way of testing for evidence 
>> since, like you say, we can't even figure out the first thing 
>> about consciousness as it relates to ourselves and each other, 
>> let alone to machines.
>
> Given a large enough table one could encode perceived human 
> behaviour with a lookup-table... So all we need is a computer 
> program that itself claims to possess consciousness. Would that 
> be a scam? Maybe Asame Obiomah is a computer program claiming 
> to be a man writing a computer program. Would that make it 
> intelligent? Hm.

Maybe he'll come up with something that is more intelligent than 
your average tabloid reader :)))