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I think true AI will not be a computer program that suddenly becomes human like. It will be a human that becomes more and more cyborg like https://techcrunch.co
by andrewfromx 8y ago
I think true AI will not be a computer program that suddenly becomes human like. It will be a human that becomes more and more cyborg like https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/thomas-reardon-and-ctrl-labs-are-building-an-api-for-the-brain/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/thomas-reardon-and-ctrl-la... Soon humans will have more and more brain surgery adding cyborg features to their non-artificial-intelligence, just their natural-intelligence until at some point, they will be so machine like, boom, AI.
- amelius 8y agoReminds me of the philosophical question of what happens to one's consciousness if you'd replace their neurons, one at a time, by electronic equivalents.
- dgzl 8y agoWhat an interesting thought...
- modzu 8y agoand more generally, the ship of Theseus
- lurquer 8y agoIt may be a fallacy to assume a neuron is less complex than a brain. Depends on how one measures complexity and at what scale... but living systems -- unlike no living systems -- strangely get more complex the closer in one goes. That is, it's fairly trivial to simulate an earthworm... it's trickier to simulate the components of the earthworm.
- klodolph 8y agoThis is a completely minor point here... but "fallacy" means that there's something wrong with the argument, if you have a disagreement about facts or assumptions then the word "fallacy" doesn't really apply (you can just say "wrong" instead).
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- lurquer 8y agoIt suffers from the fallacy of petitio principii, in that it assumes arguendo that consciousness is comprised of neurons (and, as mentioned above, that a neuron is less complex than consciousness.) But it's not stated as an 'argument' in any case so perhaps the term fallacy was out-of-place.
- klodolph 8y agoPetitio principii is when the premise assumes the truth of the conclusion, but since there is no argument and no conclusion it's impossible for the statement to suffer from that fallacy.
- lurquer 8y agoYou're right. Shouldn't have posted that. I just wanted the last word. (Dammit... did it again!)
- williamdclt 8y agoInteresting thought experimement, but it'd need to define "consciousness" which is always what makes those problems unsolvable
- andrewfromx 8y agoWho’s going first https://www.neuralink.com/ https://www.neuralink.com/ ? 50% off if you mention hacker news and free brain ointment for after surgery pain.
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