(October 13, 2018 at 10:03 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(October 13, 2018 at 9:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: "There must still be a path leading to self-awareness in AI, with a large number of of causes and effects, many in parallel, other sin series, propelling the processes from beginning to the end." Why "must be"? Is this from experience with AIs becoming self-aware?
This is from the assessment that self awareness is an artifact of the coalesce of features and capabilities of circuitry and firmware. These features and capabilities requires a mechanism to attain.
I remember that some scientists at Los Alamos thought the atomic bomb would set the atmosphere on fire.