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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the Marvin dept.

No one is yet quite sure how human consciousness comes about, but many seem to assume that it will arise as a function of artificial intelligence. Isn't it just as reasonable to think that emotions will appear as an aspect of consciousness and the presumed will to survive? The answers to these questions have yet to emerge, but during the interim, is it a good idea to push ahead in the development of artificial intelligence when we have such a limited understanding of our own? What about the possibility of mental illness? Even if we succeed in endowing AI with a morality compatible with our own, what would we do with a super human intelligence that becomes delusional, or worse, psychotic? Would we see it coming? We can't prevent it from happening to ourselves, so what makes us think we could prevent it in a machine?

Nervously awaiting learned opinions,
VT


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  • (Score: 2) by DeVilla on Friday May 24 2019, @04:40AM (1 child)

    by DeVilla (5354) on Friday May 24 2019, @04:40AM (#846951)

    Thing is, it's not code. It's "Machine Learning". It's trained from some input data set. If you need to change the behavior (because a local municipality decided to use flashing yellow arrows instead of a solid green circle) you can't just tell it the new rule or expect it to read the sign next to the light. Teaching it is like teaching a horse. It learns by screwing up and being corrected.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 25 2019, @01:41AM

    Thing is, it's not code. It's "Machine Learning".

    It doesn't matter if you call it Taco Learning, if it runs on a CPU, it is code.

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