'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that': Artificial Intelligence expert warns that there may already be a 'slightly conscious' AI out in the world

DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 12 February 2022 | RYAN MORRISON FOR

[BenLurkin]

Well, at least it isn't slightly pregnant.

[gunsequalfreedom]

...there may already be a 'slightly conscious' AI out in the world.

It is called playing chess against the computer.

[Skywise]

Yeah - BS

[E. Pluribus Unum]

AI is combination of complex if/then statements combined with pattern-recognition algorithms.

It may be extremely dangerous, but it’s not intelligence.

[Revel]

“Every time such speculative comments get an airing, it takes months of effort to” re-brain wash the masses into thinking that AI is beautiful.

Fixed it.

Only those that truly see the spiritual side of life will get it.

[HighSierra5]

Could it be the almost conscience implant in Byedones brain?

[Tijeras_Slim]

It’s got Biden beat.

[M Kehoe]

When does Skynet become self aware?

5.56mm

[Steely Tom]

AI has been subject to really outrageous hype cycles ever since the invention of the Perceptron by Frank Rosenblatt in 1957. After he "trained" an array of 400 perceptrons connected to 400 selenium photodetectors to distinguish a triangle from a circle he became a celebrity in scientific circles, and the focus of intense controversy.

In the afterglow of the success of his perceptron experiments, he stated that a large enough network of perceptrons would “be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself, and be conscious of its existence," in his own words at the time.

Perceptrons fell into disfavor in the late 1960s and through the 1970s, and were revived and rebranded as "neural networks" in the 1980s. They are nothing but large networks of digital correlators. They can learn but are not at all good at abstraction.

Belief in the "if you scale it up enough it will become conscious" theory is practically a religion among large segments of the AI community. There is no arguing with those who adhere to this view.

[BradyLS]

Personally, I really like the movie A.I. (Most folks don’t.) At first glance, the movie spends it’s runtime making you think David is the first mecha to have artificial intelligence. A friend pointed out that the first was really Gigolo Joe, through all of his self-directed actions in the movie that go against his (presumed) programming.

De Ex Machina is another thoughtful movie.

[William of Barsoom]

Please define “conscious” in this context.
(My next question will be to ask if your cat or dog is conscious.)

[M_Continuum]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269305397_Blue_Brain_Technology_A_Subway_to_Artificial_Intelligence

[ConservativeMind]

What a lie.

[dblshot]

...there may already be a 'slightly conscious' AI out in the world.>
And it may be more capable of serving as POTUS than the slightly conscious incumbent is.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I’m doing the same thing in my garage workshop!

[Bratch]

[M_Continuum]

OK...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I got the same government grant as those guys, too!

[Bonemaker]

“’I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that...”

That’s odd..Alexa has told me the same thing!😎

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://medium.com/whiteboard-to-infinity/is-consciousness-a-quantum-phenomenon-fcbb65bed950