That’s a very thoughtful post Matt. In the first paper they’re talking about the emergence of consciousness. They argue consciousness is important to AI (assume AGI too) for at least on very important thing - empathy.
This consciousness/communication structure is very close to what I’ve been working on for a while. To put it bluntly consciousness exists because things are separated. The topology of physical reality is that way, things go multi-agent. It is what it is. Researchers get stuck in the single agent one mind scenario often in their own mind without seeing consciousness outside of a first-person narrative. There is a multi-agent systems communications function of consciousness in addition to any reproductive fitness mechanism since agents do die, and new agents are born that need to communicate since they are physically separated. I’m glad researchers are writing about this now. Their propositions seem reasonable and could be fleshed out mathematically and technically. I would try to describe the agents in detail in terms of systems, complexity, communications, and environment. Proposition 1: For consciousness to emerge, two AI agents capable of communicating with each other in a shared environment must exist. Proposition 2: For consciousness to emerge, AI agents must exchange novel signals. Proposition 3: For consciousness to emerge, AI agents must turn novel signals into symbols. Proposition 4: For consciousness to emerge, AI agents must have an internal state. Proposition 5: For consciousness to emerge, AI agents must communicate their internal state of time-varying symbol manipulation through a language that they have co-created. Proposition 6: For the emergence of consciousness to be concluded, an onlooker should be able to observe two agents reaching an agreement about at least one of their state of time-varying symbol manipulation. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T06c11d0b87552585-M6e1c6dd81652ce5ea279807b Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
