"In my view, there will be no progress toward human-level AI until researchers stop trying to design computational slaves for capitalism and start taking the genuine source of intelligence seriously: fluctuating electric sheep."
Plus more nonsense about neural fluctuations or EM fields or quantum tunneling being the source of consciousness. Real AI researchers know that consciousness is irrelevant to AI. If your program passes the Turing test, it would be conscious as far as you could tell. We don't bother because dumbing down a computer to appear human really isn't useful. Colin Hales has already admitted he has no clue how to solve AGI. So let's try some magic incantations and see what happens. Hint: by consciousness, you probably mean what thinking feels like. It feels like you want to keep doing it by not dying, which increases your odds of passing on your DNA. On Mon, May 3, 2021, 1:46 PM Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote: > It's nice to see Colin, a regular on this list, in this editorial. > > https://www.salon.com/2021/04/30/why-artificial-intelligence-research-might-be-going-down-a-dead-end/ > > "Relatedly, Colin Hales, an artificial intelligence researcher at the > University of Melbourne, has observed how strange it is that AI > scientists have not yet tried to create an artificial brain in the > same way other scientists have made artificial hearts, stomachs, or > livers. Instead, AI researchers have created theoretical models of > neuron patterns without their corresponding physics. It is as if > instead of building airplanes, AI researchers are designing flight > simulators that never leave the ground, Hales says." ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7c7052974ce450f1-M6180da34c45c9723de14b6d4 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
