Do you think search engines will ever attain sentience?

Question

A search engine's biggest problem is that they don't always know what the person using them is looking for and often provide excess unrelated junk. Perhaps an interactive search engine will be developed so people can communicate with it to find exactly what they're looking for. Is it inevitable for an interactive search engine to become self aware or be programed to be self aware and with the ability to learn? Wouldn't a sentient search engine be superior to a non sentient search engine?

Answer 1

"Sentience" comes from the same base word as "sensate", which means to have physical senses. The mind, being tabula rasa at birth, requires sensate experience to fill that tabula rasa. This is called "acquired" knowledge.



From this sensate acquired knowledge the mind abstracts what is metaphysically important in the experience.



A computer will never have the ability to abstract what is metaphysically important, as in "what the person using a search engine is looking for." Obviously that knowledge wouldn't come from sensate knowledge. But all things known by man that are not DIRECTLY from sensate knowledge are called "concepts" and are created by the integration of two or more percepts.



How is a computer to have a percept, let alone integrate it with other percepts into the concept of "what a person is looking for"? When I asked Cleverbot "Can Cleverbot ever have sensate knowledge?", it answered with this: "I don't know. You're the cleverbot."



When I asked it "Why am I the cleverbot?" it answered: "Gaww... *blushes* thank you."



I think you mean "sapience", not "sentience", but where is AI to get the epistemic principles that would allow it to have sapience?

Answer 2

Yes, a sentient search engine would be superior. But I don't think it's possible.



A sentient search engine is more likely to be found in a psychiatrist than a computer. Meaning, you can't really expect an electronic machine to know the experiences and subconsciousness that make up a major part of our BEING. Nor can you expect a search engine to know Dasein.



So, I think your question is based on an outdated Cartesian dualism.

Answer 3

Google... I certainly, locate Yahoo's device to be a difficulty whilst finding too particular information. at the same time as being a scholar Yahoo! did not got here upon maximum issues i needed, at the same time as Google did.