Once Robots Are Self-Aware, We Should Full-On Merge With Them, Says Michio Kaku

Curosity ^ | 03/19/18 | Cody Gough

[Alas Babylon!]

With his chin in the air like that Dr. Frankenstein reminds me of Barak Obama!

[G Larry]

“self-aware”...

I don’t think that means what you think it means.

[neverevergiveup]

They will have to join AIAI

I love it!

[x]

He's talking about a century or so from now.

A lot can happen in a century.

[adorno]

You are forgetting Evolution.

No I'm not!

The discussion is about "humans" creating robots or computers with intelligence higher than ours.

So, can you tell me how "evolution" created humans and/or any species with intelligence? Progressively larger or progressively more complex brains. And, what makes for "awareness" of self or other beings or things?

Is intelligence about "emotions" too?

[Repeal 16-17]

My thoughts exactly. Hopefully, resistance isn’t futile.

[Nifster]

Just another reason Silicon Valley is a hard place to work

[ctdonath2]

I’ve watched half a century go by.
I’ve watched AI go from “Game of NIM” to Watson, Siri & Alexa take IQ tests.
I’ve studied AI as a bright-eyed software engineer.

AI, as we do & will know it, is nothing more than searching data graphs for an objective criteria - a mechanical process.
That’s. It.

“Self-aware robots” aren’t happening with the technology we have, nor will have in the next 100 years.
They may become staggeringly efficient in searching vast data for complex criteria.
They will NOT be “self aware”.

[samtheman]

Sex robots are coming.

[WePledge]

Isaac Asimov wrote the series “Foundation” which depicted the rise of and rejection of androids in Earth’s future.
Even with his belief the end would be utopian, I rejected it because a wise and benevolent droid saves humanity by turning us into a symbiotic universe without individuality. Daneel the droid of note and another, Gaskin changed the laws of robotics on there own to better the good of their humans. Oh yeah, Daneel perfect himself by merging with a human child.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don't believe a software program will ever become "self-aware."

I believe there is a quantum-mechanical element of consciousness/self-awareness that can never be recreated on a computer.

Just as quantum phenomena require a conscious observer, a conscious observer requires quantum phenomena.

[KEVLAR]

Indeed.

Lots of foolish talk on the subject of late.

[BenLurkin]

[BenLurkin]

[Don W]

I thought it was Giskard that rejected the “Zeroth” law?

[beethovenfan]

More Kaku ca-ca

[simpson96]

Let me guess. This Kaku is an atheist - or at best, not a God-fearing person.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Or, as a product of the mind of Man, learn his most basic skill: deception.

[TigersEye]

So conversation with a sex robot would be like a perpetual “who’s on first?” routine?

[Dr.Deth]

Japanese scientists are hard at work helping humans “merge” with robots.