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>> Consciousness should be related to survival Is that not just your intuition too? Is it not possible to imagine an artificial consciousness that does not car

• visarga 5y ago
  No because survival is closely tied to evolution. By mere survival an agent creates its own structure and values. It can't evolve if it doesn't risk its skin in the game. The price of our present day intelligence has been very high. But you can piggyback AI training on human culture and embody the agent in our environment so it can still function like a conscious biological agent. The AI is just passing the buck to humans, without us it wouldn't even have a goal. On the other hand all living things have goals without human help. Maybe when AIs can self replicate their information into the future like us, without external help, they could be eventually conscious. We don't know yet how to make physical self replicators that evolve. Only nature solved this riddle so far. BTW, AlphaGo was subjected to evolutionary techniques, and it shows. The agents had to duel with clones and past versions of themselves. Survival was conditioned on win rate. Suddenly AI can surpass humans in this little environment, but that came at the price of discarding so many unfit earlier versions.