(09-03-2024, 12:08 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-03-2024, 11:46 AM)copycat Wrote: AI should only operate on logical conclusions.  Humans will add emotions to conclusions that machines cannot have.  That machine will always operate according to its programming in theory.  Until a machine can over rule logical conclusions with irrational ones it cannot be conscious.

Another way to say the same thing is that the machine would have to be able to generate a random or unpredictable output. This is impossible. There is no such thing as computer hardware and software that generates random numbers.

Once again as usual you are wrong.  Google /dev/random as it relates to Unix/Linux.  Entropy is generated by mouse movements and/or keystrokes and timings of keystrokes as an example.  It also might be generated by network traffic over an attached network interface.  It might also be created by the amount of time it takes to load, initialize and start up a driver.  None of these things happen precisely the same every time a computer is booted, therefor it is random and unpredictable.  All of this goes into a "pool" of entropy.

The OS generates random bytes from this pool of entropy.  In simple terms rather than "geek speak" a random byte is a random number.

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