On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 1:13 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
*>AIM AND SCOPE * I noticed they used the word "consciousness" 8 times but the word intelligence only once, and even then they meant Artificial Consciousness not Artificial Intelligence. It should have been the other way around. I think AI is fascinating but AC is a bore because nobody has anything worthwhile to say about it, and if anybody ever does they're first going to have to figure out how intelligence works. > *Consciousness has a demonstrated, although poorly understood, role in > shaping human behavior.* Unlike intelligence consciousness has never been demonstrated to have the slightest effect on human behavior, with of course the notable exception of my own consciousness. > The processes underpinning consciousness may be crudely replicated to > build better AI systems. Since nobody knows what process underpins consciousness there is no way to know if a Artificial *Intelligence* system has replicated consciousness crudely or with sophistication. John K Clark > > -- 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.
