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If the body is simply a data processing machine, data which is acquired via our keen or not so keen senses, why does the article ends up concluding that AIs are
by aatd86 4y ago
If the body is simply a data processing machine, data which is acquired via our keen or not so keen senses, why does the article ends up concluding that AIs are not conscious?
They are not as conscious as we are perhaps, the same way a mole isn't as conscious as we are. On top of it, adding modes to an AI would make it more conscious.
The only difference is self-agency. It's embedded into us via the dopaminergic circuitry. Current AIs are merely acting on human directions. They are piggy-backing on that dopaminergic circuitry to start and act.
They don't start acting on their own unless prompted.
Now, why do humans do anything would be a question... Why do cells, mollecules, atoms etc do anything.
My hunch is that the governing principle is maximization of potential energy.
It requires increasingly stable structures.
That would drive existence and consciousness would just be an emerging quality of the interactions that occur when trying to maximize potential energy.
That's also why I don't understand how some AI researchers cannot be at the very least wary of what a self-agent, unaligned AI could decide to do in the future. Heck, humans decimated whole animal populations. Or even other human populations... Humans are funny.
Then again, the argument of authority: these PhD people are just mere humans. Can't follow them blindly.
- asplake 4y ago> In sum, we propose that consciousness is the result of the continued presence of homeostatic feelings.
- aatd86 4y agoI don't understand what you imply by this quote. A running machine would just have different homeostatic measurements.
- asplake 4y agoI didn’t see anything in your post describing either feelings or homeostasis. That’s its core thesis
- aatd86 4y agoI see. When they say feelings, I reckon they mean sensations. Not emotions. Homeostasis is just about the delta measurement/ variation being sufficient. Because humans are all different from each other and therefore, an absolute measure wouldn't make any sense. In that regard, a running machine awaiting for input also has homeostatic feelings. Just not necessarily the same ones as a human but likewise for a bat relying on sonar or a blind mole. So it's not really a point of contention at all here. :)