On Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 11:01:41 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > As long as both are intelligent how could you tell the difference between > a conscious AI System and a non-conscious AI System? If you can't then > shouldn't you be concentrating on figuring out how intelligence works > rather than consciousness? > > John K Clark >
Sounds like a topic for the conference: AIM AND SCOPE The study of consciousness remains a challenge that spans multiple disciplines. Consciousness has a demonstrated, although poorly understood, role in shaping human behavior. The processes underpinning consciousness may be crudely replicated to build better AI systems. Such a “top-down” perspective on AI readily reveals the gaps in current data-driven approaches and highlights the need for “better AI.” At the same time, the process of designing AI systems creates an opportunity to better explain biological consciousness and its importance in system behavior. Measuring the components that may lead to consciousness (e.g., modeling and assessing others’ behaviors; calculating utility functions for not only an individual agent, but also an interacting society of agents) is increasingly important to address concerns about the surprising capabilities of today’s AI systems. The symposium is an excellent opportunity for researchers considering consciousness as a motivation for “better AI” to gather, share their recent research, discuss the fundamental scientific obstacles, and reflect on how it relates to the broader field of artificial intelligence and robotics. Research on consciousness and its realization in AI systems motivates research to account for, with scientific rigor: the motivations of AI systems, the role of sociality with and between machines, and how to implement machine ethics. The meeting will offer a platform to discuss the connection between AI systems and other fields such as psychology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and neuroscience. - pt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
