RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience?
November 28, 2012 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2012 at 11:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Not quite for the types of performance I'm suggesting. Autopilots and catalogs are incapable of availing themselves of experience (at least directly) or leveraging that experience in the completion of a task (specifically tasks which they are unfamiliar with). The ability to "experience" something..itself...would seem to imply "some" sort of self-awareness.
Now sure, we could keep our thumbs down on dumb systems and lend them the experience we have - but this assumes that we'll be there to do so..at least one of those occupations I listed has a huge barrier to this being possible, but why not cut out the middleman? Streamline the process, as it were. If an aircraft has a failure that was not programmed into it's auto-pilot..I don't want to rely on some programmer just happening to be there...just happening to have a solution...and just happening to be capable of re-writing the program in time to avert disaster.
(in that scenario above..btw, even if we were incapable of producing AI which exceeds our own ability to process data....it would still not be prone to panic...as we are..or at least it wouldn't -have- to be)
Now sure, we could keep our thumbs down on dumb systems and lend them the experience we have - but this assumes that we'll be there to do so..at least one of those occupations I listed has a huge barrier to this being possible, but why not cut out the middleman? Streamline the process, as it were. If an aircraft has a failure that was not programmed into it's auto-pilot..I don't want to rely on some programmer just happening to be there...just happening to have a solution...and just happening to be capable of re-writing the program in time to avert disaster.
(in that scenario above..btw, even if we were incapable of producing AI which exceeds our own ability to process data....it would still not be prone to panic...as we are..or at least it wouldn't -have- to be)
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