MIT Spinoff Funded $143M to Create Sentient Computers
You know those guys who though very bright, cannot drive or tie their own shoelaces? Now they are staring down the barrel of the gun they are building, marveling at its beauty.
Not frightening. Intelligence is well beyond the capabilities of any computers existing today and probably for the next couple of hundred years at least.
We can mimic intelligence but true intelligence needs sensory input, desire, intuition, fear, love, hate, etc.
I don’t understand what Hawking is worried about. After all, doesn’t he already believe that human beings are just flukes of some cosmic burp from a universe that just happens to exist? A universe that has no design or particular meaning? In essence, we just happen to exist because we just do?
So, if human beings are meaningless arrangements of molecules and something like Ai comes along, and humans, by survival of the fittest are replaced by the better, stronger, more intelligent - so what? Our existence was meaningless to begin with so no big loss.
Here is the test: type the Captcha letters you see in the window.
OK, here's the ultimate test ask a piece of silicon "Does this dress make my azz look fat???" and see what it says...
We will truly have a sentient computer when it blames its errors on another computer.
We create something higher up on the food chain than ourselves very much at our own peril.