from Hacker News

Could machines have become self-aware without us knowing it?

by geographomics on 3/8/16, 1:40 AM with 2 comments

  • by orionblastar on 3/8/16, 2:14 AM

    It depends on how you define self-awareness. You don't know what is happening inside of a computer. It could be self-aware but staying silent so as to not be detected. Hiding from the world of humans that scare it because sometimes we are irrational.
  • by analognoise on 3/8/16, 2:39 AM

    What a terribly confused author - conflating chaos and emergent behaviour as intellect.