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I know it feels like we are close to creating AI but it seems like nothing happens until there is a breakthrough in understanding mind/consciousness which seems

• petra 10y ago
  Why do you think so ? if we start with the assumption that AI can look different than human intelligence, maybe there isn't a need for consciousness ? or maybe some very basic form of consciousness like we already have[1] in will suffice ? [1]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-become-self-aware/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-b...
  • dmfdmf 10y ago
    > maybe there isn't a need for consciousness? I absolutely agree with that and I guess my comment was not clear. It is common in AI discussions to see the (usually implicit) assumption that to create AI we have to create consciousness which I think is an unwarranted assumption. Nevertheless to the degree that intelligence is an attribute of consciousness, I think we need to understand consciousness at least well enough to recreate that attribute in a computer. Whether doing that requires consciousness or not remains to be seen (we don't know) but I suspect not.