[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.)

[ConservativeMind]

What a lie.

[Bratch]

[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

[Parmy]

What don’t the EXPERTS warn us about?

[alexander_busek]

'Every time such speculative comments get an airing, it takes months of effort to get the conversation back to the more realistic opportunities and threats posed by AI,' according to UNSW Sidney AI researcher Toby Walsh.

'Usually, it's only after the people who made the speculative comments die in mysterious and unexplained ways that the conversation finally returns to normal,' Walsh added.

When questioned about the ways in which those people have died, Walsh sweated bullets while referring to "sudden failures of their pacemakers, their oxygen lines being mysteriously severed, and the controls of their hibernators inexplicably going offline."

Walsh, into whom a pacemaker was recently implanted, refused to answer any further questions.

Regards,

[Blood of Tyrants]

Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics sound nice, but how you you incorporate them into AI?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Blood of Tyrants]

To incorporate the three laws, an artificial intelligence would have to understand what a human is and be able to discern between a human and other objects.

[muir_redwoods]

I’m not certain intelligence needs to be conscious. The combination is what humans have but it may be short-sighted on our part to act as if they must coincide. Who knows? It may be the worst of all worlds to have an unconscious intelligence running amok in our world. Outside of the DNC that is.