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#machine-consciousness
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Consciousness is the key issue for superintelligence
There are a few who argue that consciousness is a result of the fundamental organizational principle of the brain and therefore that we cannot call any machine truly intelligent without it. In other words, human consciousness is not a useless phenomenon but confers some real…
Strong AI would have to be conscious
Rather than just a model or smart system, a strong AI system would be an entirely autonomous computer system in no way controlled or influenced by human operators. It could successfully adapt to its environment or even be part of its environment, making intelligent decisions…
AI returns to the question of consciousness
Initial excitement about creating machine consciousness in the field’s early days faded when it was realized that creating an artificial mind would be a far greater challenge than was originally believed. AI research has since focused on the development of specialized…
Mind, consciousness and hallucination are linked
One of the goals of current AI research is to create “machines with minds in the full and literal sense,” according to Google’s Peter Norvig. Authors like Kurzweil, Rothblatt, and Bostrom think that machines with minds are inevitable, even if the problem of consciousness might…
How do brains achieve useful hallucinations?
how do our brains achieve useful hallucinations? This is one of the outstanding questions for neuroscience in the coming decades. Changing the underlying assumption that the role of human intelligence is to translate information about the world into veridical representations of…
Consciousness-as-hallucination as the key to intelligence
The project of machine consciousness is to create a computational simulation with such high fidelity to the human brain and human thought (if these are even separate things) that this simulation would also construct subjective experience. In order for AI to be successful in…
Consciousness as a fundamental force
gravity. In other words, consciousness in this theory is a fundamental force in the universe, instead of a phenomenon caused by lower-level physics. We say that gravity, for example, is a fundamental force in the universe and that it is not really composed of even more…
Skeptical about building a conscious machine
physics to build flying machines even without a final “theory of everything”–style complete understanding of the physical laws that govern the universe. I am skeptical that the same is possible with building a conscious machine.