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The Future Eve's Wikipedia page: Edison created Hadaly in an effort to overcome the flaws and artificiality of real women and create a perfect and natural woman who could bring a man true happiness. Edison himself has no interest in questions of consciousness, especially in women: ‘A woman may be married ten times over, be sincere every time, and yet be ten different persons’ (p.85).

parallel between AI as we understand it now and objects imbued with intelligence through some supernatural means. in both cases how do we draw distinctions between artificial and human minds?

The ships accordingly think like the humans who program them, but—just like the machine-slave devices in Hephaestus’ workshop—are dependent upon the higher-order cognition of their human masters to command and control them.

parallel between AI as we understand it now and objects imbued with intelligence through some supernatural means. in both cases how do we draw distinctions between artificial and human minds?

The ships accordingly think like the humans who program them, but—just like the machine-slave devices in Hephaestus’ workshop—are dependent upon the higher-order cognition of their human masters to command and control them.