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"AS AIS DEVELOP, WE MIGHT HAVE TO ENGINEER WAYS TO PREVENT CONSCIOUSNESS IN THEM—OUR MOST PREMIUM AI SERVICES WILL BE ADVERTISED AS CONSCIOUSNESS-FREE." No. Si
by slackstation 12y ago
"AS AIS DEVELOP, WE MIGHT HAVE TO ENGINEER WAYS TO PREVENT CONSCIOUSNESS IN THEM—OUR MOST PREMIUM AI SERVICES WILL BE ADVERTISED AS CONSCIOUSNESS-FREE."
No. Simply, no. We don't understand consciousness well enough in our own minds to understand how to stop that mechanism happening in another mind. As of yet, we have no mechanism that produces any of the insightful, creative, general intelligence that we see in humans. Even basic biological processes like walking over uneven terrain, flight by flapping of wings and picking up novel and oddly-shaped objects that haven't been seen before are challenges that we haven't even begun to master.
The hyperbole of these articles makes it seem as if creative machine intelligence is right around the corner. What we have done is make statistical pattern matching algorithms. They aren't learning in the way that a child learns through repetition. We simply don't know how general intelligence works well enough to do this.
- mortenjorck 12y agoI had to stop reading after that line. “Our most premium services will be advertised as consciousness-free” literally makes as much sense as a pre-Wright-Brothers article predicting that “our most premium flying machines will be advertised as free of feathers.” It’s just a non-sequitur given a grasp of the basic principles, whether it be flight or AI.
- cpeterso 12y ago> OUR MOST PREMIUM AI SERVICES WILL BE ADVERTISED AS CONSCIOUSNESS-FREE. I misread this as: "our most premium ad services will be advertised as conscience-free." :)
- ilaksh 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBsl3HlB8VE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBsl3HlB8VE Insight, creativity, and general intelligence are all different and active areas of research. There is quite a lot of progress in creativity. Google for 'creative software'. Insight can mean many things, but Watson can now provide insights into cancer diagnosis. Consciousness is actually fairly well understood in terms of attention, focus, and other aspects. Artificial general intelligence is a very active field seeing quite a bit of progress. Here is a bird that flies with flapping wings: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bionic-bird-the-flying-app--2 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bionic-bird-the-flying-ap... (By the way, that is completely unrelated to AI). Walking over uneven terrain, (also completely unrelated to artificial general intelligence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVG4J29JZI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVG4J29JZI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww Deep learning is beyond statistical pattern matching. It does involve both supervised and unsupervised learning. Deep learning is currently the most successful technique, but not the most ambitious approach in AGI. Google for 'AGI', 'deep learning', 'sparse autoencoder', 'hierarchical hidden Markov model', 'OpenCog', 'spiking neural network', 'Hierarchical Temporal Memory'