Mike_Yates
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Could an artificial intelligence ever achieve self-awareness?
Can machines ever be sentient?
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No. Self aware requires learning, not just teaching. It has to be able to learn things it was never taught.
With what we currently understand about memory and human processing it will take another 15 years of the same exponential growth rate of miniaturization and expansion of available memory for a processor to equal a human brain in simultaneous processing ability.
Even after you have the capacity, you have to give it the ability to use all of those connections.
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You can teach (or program, whatever you call it) a computer to learn things. It's already done.
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Depends on your philosophical outlook. Is sentience a function of the lump of goo known as the brain? Or is it magic, i.e "the soul"?
If it's the former then absolutely. You just need an AI that emulates how a brain does things. Problem with that is, we don't know exactly how brains do things, and we don't have the tech to properly emulate the parts we do know how they work anyway.
Yet.
If it's the former then absolutely. You just need an AI that emulates how a brain does things. Problem with that is, we don't know exactly how brains do things, and we don't have the tech to properly emulate the parts we do know how they work anyway.
Yet.
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Yes, this. It's one of those things, like cold fusion, that's always 25 years away. There is nothing theoretically impossible about it, but since the human brain is by some distance the most complicated thing we know of in the universe, and we are only recently beginning to understand it, we're a long way from replicating it. Consciousness is an emergent property of all those billions of neural connections, not an intrinsic property.
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Ray Kurzweil says that one day it might be possible to transfer your consciousness and entire neural network into a supercomputer and achieve digital immortality.
In the field of advanced AI research, this is known as "transcendence".
Unfortunately, this will not be technologically possible until sometime in the 2nd half of the 21st century.
In the field of advanced AI research, this is known as "transcendence".
Unfortunately, this will not be technologically possible until sometime in the 2nd half of the 21st century.
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That's alright. I don't plan to die for at least a hundred years yet.
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In 2050 I'll be 62-63 years old.
It's possible that I might live long enough to see this.
According to Ray Kurzweil's projections, sentient machines will be possible by the 2045-2050 timeframe.
Perhaps even sooner if scientists can perfect quantum computing.
It's possible that I might live long enough to see this.
According to Ray Kurzweil's projections, sentient machines will be possible by the 2045-2050 timeframe.
Perhaps even sooner if scientists can perfect quantum computing.
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Why not? Most likely, they're the ones who will be doing the cool stuff like deep-space exploration and colonizing other planets.
Evolution.
Evolution.
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You mean machines?
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I heard that Skynet is working on some cool AI.
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Mike assumes computers are able to store and interact with quanta like humans interact with their brain tumors and dope.
Every human I know of is chiefly interested in eating the daily bread others toil to make.
Every human I know of is chiefly interested in eating the daily bread others toil to make.
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Mike, who told you what sentient means?
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It depends on your definition of sentient.
In Buddhism, for example, animals are considered sentient beings. As far as we known they have no self awareness, they do, however, "suffer".
I'm sure you could make a machine that could "suffer" under certain conditions.
Does anyone remember those little computer pets Tamagotchi ?
They were programmed to be sad and sick and die if not cared for properly.
My daughter had one and she would be checking it every 3 or 4 hours constantly so it didn't "die"
It always was a bit disconcerting to me.
In Buddhism, for example, animals are considered sentient beings. As far as we known they have no self awareness, they do, however, "suffer".
I'm sure you could make a machine that could "suffer" under certain conditions.
Does anyone remember those little computer pets Tamagotchi ?
They were programmed to be sad and sick and die if not cared for properly.
My daughter had one and she would be checking it every 3 or 4 hours constantly so it didn't "die"
It always was a bit disconcerting to me.
