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What if A.I. Sentience Is a Question of Degree?
Since the 1950s, discussions about AI have largely revolved around a big, tantalizing question: What can machines do, and where might they hit a wall? Will they ever truly think, understand, or maybe even become conscious? Could they reach the so-called “heights of human intelligence”? And then there’s that shadowy question looming in the backgroun
... See moreShai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Daniel Santos 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
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If consciousness really can arise in a jumble of silicon chips, we run the risk of creating countless AIs — beings, really — that can not only intelligently perform tasks, but develop feelings about their lives.
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Rather than asking if each new AI system is finally the one that has conscious experience, focusing on the more fundamental que
... See moreMary Martin added
If our minds can be recreated by a machine, then maybe our thinking is more robotic than we’d like to admit. And that’s a reality that shakes us right down to our human core.
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Daniel Santos added
While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us? How does it change us when we realize that even today’s mind-mimicking “weak AI” can already take over cognitive tasks and abilities we once thought were exclusively human?
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
Daniel Santos added
Within a century or two, the combination of biotechnology and AI might result in physical and mental traits that completely break free of the hominid mold. Some believe that consciousness might even be severed from any organic structure and could surf cyberspace free of all biological and physical constraints. On the other hand, we might witness th
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
**Note:** AI as religion - something beyond humans’ comprehension that we’re putting faith in“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” This statement makes intuitive sense, but, more importantly, we can point to a concrete example in support of it: the microscopic roundworm C. elegans. ... See more
newyorker.com • Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter
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