That's a perfectly valid way to think about it, but just curious, what would you say about a computer program that has achieved sentience?
It could replicate itself across many machines, and even use machines to create more machines for it's duplicates to occupy, and it could certainly evolve and change over time.
But a computer program isn't really a physical thing -- it's fundamentally just information, and it could be represented on hardware in many many different ways.
So would such a hypothetical sentient AI be "alive" in your eyes?
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That's a perfectly valid way to think about it, but just curious, what would you say about a computer program that has achieved sentience?
It could replicate itself across many machines, and even use machines to create more machines for it's duplicates to occupy, and it could certainly evolve and change over time.
But a computer program isn't really a physical thing -- it's fundamentally just information, and it could be represented on hardware in many many different ways.
So would such a hypothetical sentient AI be "alive" in your eyes?