Quote de Z-man, post 31 above: "The human intelligence concepts I've mentioned (emotions, morals, ethics...etc.) are subjective concepts, and also exist between the peaks (1's) and valleys (0's) of the digital world. Simply put, subjectivity does not exist in the digital world. This is the gap or abyss you refer to in a subsequent post."
Well I hope somebody gets those algorithms before they get us:
Threat from Artificial Intelligence not just Hollywood fantasy - Telegraph
"Dr Armstrong [Dr Stuart Armstrong, of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University], who was speaking at a debate on artificial intelligence organised in London by the technology research firm Gartner, warns that it will be difficult to tell whether a machine is developing in a benign or deadly direction...
"As AIs get more powerful
anything that is solvable by cognitive processes, such as ill health, cancer, depression, boredom, becomes solvable," he says. "And we are almost at the point of generating an AI that is as intelligent as humans."