On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 3:50:14 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 4:29 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> It is quite easy, I think, to define a program that "remembers" (stores >> and later retrieves ( information.* >> > > I agree. And for an emotion like pain write a program such that the > closer the number in the X register comes to the integer P the more > computational resources will be devoted to changing that number, and if it > ever actually equals P then the program should stop doing everything else > and do nothing but try to change that number to something far enough away > from P until it's no longer an urgent matter and the program can again do > things that have nothing to do with P. > > Artificial Intelligence is hard but Artificial Consciousness Is easy. >
This strikes me as totally wrong. We have what might be called AI, or at least now we have deep learning neural networks that are able to do some highly intelligent things. Even machines that can abstract known physics from a basic set of data, say learning the Copernican system from data on the appearance of planets in the sky, have been demonstrated. We may be near a time where the frontiers of physics will be pursued by AI systems, and we human physicists will do little but sit with slack jaw, maybe get high and wait for the might AI oracle to make a pronouncement. Yet I question whether such a deep learning AI system has any cognitive awareness of a physical world or anything else. LC > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/020e743e-6617-44ad-bf90-0ec46e956d93n%40googlegroups.com.
