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Sorry to take things off-topic but >Needless to say we will not be uploading consciousness anytime soon I'd say that uploading consciousness is an entirely or
by OscarCunningham 8y ago
Sorry to take things off-topic but
>Needless to say we will not be uploading consciousness anytime soon
I'd say that uploading consciousness is an entirely orthogonal problem to AI. Uploading a consciousness is all about scanning the brain and simulating it accurately. It doesn't involve any AI since the intelligence already exists. Conversely if you succeeded with uploading it wouldn't necessarily help with AI, since it would still be hard to see how the brain was working.
So I don't think progress in one field can tell you anything about the other.
- cosmon0t 8y agoI feel like the comment was poking fun at the "fields", which are so hyped that they might as well be called hunting for the philosopher's stone.
- fragmede 8y agoWhere do you upload it to? What hardware? How much RAM? What's the CPU's clockspeed? Bus speed? Those are the right questions to ask when researching a new electronic gadget's capabilities, but I'm sure those are the wrong questions to ask if presented with hardware that could hold consciousness. Humanity understands so very little about consciousness, that, were we able to simulate it under the umbrella of AI, it would still advance the pre-natal field of uploaded digital consciousness. I can think of specific exceptions, especially using a very strict definition of the field of AI research, that says that the fields are separate, but until we've succeeded at both, it's impossible to say what was actually necessary in order to get there.