On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, 2:01 AM Alan Grimes via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
This video might be total bullshit It is a distinct possibility. but if it's not, its utterly > mindboggling! > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGZSC8odIU > > > I don't know what to make of this. > The idea of an immortal soul is not exactly new. What is new, is machines that pass the Turing test and appear to be conscious without doing anything outside the laws of physics. We have sensations of consciousness, qualia, and free will. A neural network trained to predict text can describe these feelings just as well as a human. These feelings originate from positive reinforcement of computation, input, and output respectively. We have these feelings because otherwise life would seem to have no purpose and we would produce fewer offspring. Stuff like near death experiences and claims of memories of past lives aren't really evidence for the supernatural as much as they are evidence that we don't have complete understanding of our own software. I think AGI research can continue conventionally but the above > hypothesis must be strongly addressed before contemplating human > enhancement or mind uploading. > We know how that would work. A robot predicts your actions and carries them out in real time. All it needs is enough personal training data to convince other people that it's you. There's probably enough data on your phone right now. I can look at my messages, photos, and timeline from a couple of years ago and realize it's already a lot bugger than what's in my brain. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tbba18f2053c913b4-M890b638fd9cacfabfffc47db Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
