On 5/2/2021 4:27 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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 hardbut 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.
In order to be conscious such an AI needs some values and some way to
act in it's environment to realize them. And then it would only have a
kind of first order awareness. To have human-like consciousness it
would need to be able to plan it's actions by using an internal
simulation including itself to predict events.
Brent
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