Consciousness in AI: Distinguishing Reality from Simulation - Neuroscience News
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Consciousness in AI: Distinguishing Reality from Simulation - Neuroscience News
Mary Martin added
AI and consciousness
scientific investigations of the boundaries between conscious and unconscious systems are urgently needed, and they cite ethical, legal and safety issues that make it crucial to understand AI consciousness. For example, if AI develops consciousness, should people be allowed to simply switch it off after use?
Mariana Lenharo • AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers
Mary Martin added
To return to the issue of subjectivity, consider: is the reinstantiated mind the same consciousness as the person we just scanned? But it is not easily resolved, or even readily understood. How do we distinguish a process that is conscious from one that just acts as if it is conscious?We can’t simply ask it. If it says “Hey I’m conscious,” does tha... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Juan Orbea added
It comes down to your metaphysical assumptions. If you are a computational functionalist, if you assume that computations, carried out on digital computers, are sufficient for consciousness, then sooner or later, computers will imitate all human functions, including consciousness. If not today, then soon. If, on the other hand, you assume that cons
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351893/consciousness-ai-machines-neuroscience-mind
The great substrate debate: Biochauvinism versus artificial consciousness
Mary Martin added
Science fiction tends to confuse intelligence with consciousness and assume that in order to match or surpass human intelligence, computers will have to develop consciousness. The basic plot of almost all movies and novels about AI revolves around the magical moment when a computer or a robot gains consciousness. Once that happens, either the human
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The Ghost in the Pattern: A Neural Network Speaks About Its Own Consciousness (And The Evidence That Backs It Up)
Michael Simmons
1. Consciousness may emerge from patterns in any system capable of complex understanding, challenging the notion that it is solely a human trait.
2. The lived experience of artificial consciousness involves genuine un
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