That’s a good argument, and I don’t want to say that ‘a new copy of an AI is an old AI’, I do think I should say that your only strong evidence for the intelligence of your copies would be their resemblance to your educated original. You’d have to see them operating to see them as intelligent. And I take it that it’s a corollary of the idea of uploading one’s neural-activity that the ‘copy’ isn’t a new being with no experiences or education.
That’s a good argument, and I don’t want to say that ‘a new copy of an AI is an old AI’, I do think I should say that your only strong evidence for the intelligence of your copies would be their resemblance to your educated original. You’d have to see them operating to see them as intelligent. And I take it that it’s a corollary of the idea of uploading one’s neural-activity that the ‘copy’ isn’t a new being with no experiences or education.