Freak.
The human mind cannot and may never, be imitated.
Can a robot ever get to the point of wondering and appreciating the “wonders” of the world and the universe?
For example, can a robot/computer ever be brought to the point that it can say: Hmmm... I wonder how the universe began? I wonder if that cute girl (or cute robot) would want to join me on a galactic trip.
The biggest problem for humans designing/developing robots/computers with human-like or superior intelligence, is the paradox of “creating something that is greater than humans”. How could a human create something of higher intelligence if the human has never met anything with “that kind of higher intelligence”? We have humans of different intelligence levels, but, can humans device anything that could have intelligence higher than the most intelligent of humans? To create something with intelligence higher than humans, would take something that is not of the limited levels of human intelligence.
Nope.
The man is an idiot and touted every as as “super smart”.
“self-aware”...
I don’t think that means what you think it means.
Sex robots are coming.
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.
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.
More Kaku ca-ca
Let me guess. This Kaku is an atheist - or at best, not a God-fearing person.
Japanese scientists are hard at work helping humans “merge” with robots.
The Singularity is Christian theology in a science fiction wrapper.
There is no God, but we should invent an AI that will know everything, do everything, totally want to take care of us and should be obeyed to create heaven on Earth. If you don’t, out come the environmentalist horror stories.
The AI will let you upload your brain, if you’re good, and give you digital afterlife forever and ever ... and all the believers think this will happen before they die of old age. Guys, this is heaven.
Yeah but can they do this?
(insert silly Groucho Marx dance here)
“Open the pod bay door Hal’’.
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