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Could artificial intelligence get depressed and have hallucinations?
As artificial intelligence (AI) allows machines to become more like humans, will they experience similar psychological quirks such as hallucinations or depression? And might this be a good thing?
Last month, New York University in New York City hosted a symposium called Canonical Computations in Brains and Machines, where neuroscientists and AI experts discussed overlaps in the way humans and machines think. Zachary Mainen, a neuroscientist at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, a neuroscience and cancer research institute in Lisbon, speculated [36m video] that we might expect an intelligent machine to suffer some of the same mental problems people do.
[...] Q: Why do you think AIs might get depressed and hallucinate?
A: I'm drawing on the field of computational psychiatry, which assumes we can learn about a patient who's depressed or hallucinating from studying AI algorithms like reinforcement learning. If you reverse the arrow, why wouldn't an AI be subject to the sort of things that go wrong with patients?
Q: Might the mechanism be the same as it is in humans?
A: Depression and hallucinations appear to depend on a chemical in the brain called serotonin. It may be that serotonin is just a biological quirk. But if serotonin is helping solve a more general problem for intelligent systems, then machines might implement a similar function, and if serotonin goes wrong in humans, the equivalent in a machine could also go wrong.
Related: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @04:10PM (2 children)
As if depression, hallucination and suicide were only designed for humans. With enough twisting of logic, the jews will find a way to depress machines that also kill themselves... and be proud of having all these impossible diseases.
Depression is unnatural for humans in a natural environment. The human has to be manipulated long enough to get him depressed. Give him loans he cannot repay (with interest), show him products he will never own, get him running the race in order to get nowhere.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 15 2018, @04:31PM (1 child)
You have no proof that depression didn't exist in humans thousands of years ago. Signs of depression can be seen in other animals.
Also you're fucking scum.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @12:46AM
Are you sure you're not jewish? Or a friend of theirs?
Jews are scummy rats. All of them. Everyone from khazaria is a scummy rat.