Artificial intelligence officially gets scary

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Yeah I think much of this will be a sort of hybrid consciousness, wherein algorithms may actually depend on natural consciousness, in some way, in order to function as an artificial consciousness.
 

vimothy

yurp
Don’t know/understand what logistic regression is, or any advanced statistics yet, but I’d agree that my understanding the cutting edge machine learning algorithms come nowhere close to conscious.

There was a good definition that a neuroscientist gave of consciousness, which I will have to paraphrase until I can locate it. Something like this:

A thing is said to be conscious is there is something that it is like to be that thing, a certain likeness of being that thing.
in general the contemporary approach to AI is can it simulate a real intelligence in some way, for example can it accurately categorise pictures
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
This is one way the “thought decoding” fMRI scanning can plug into an algorithm as a sort of prosthetic consciousness from the perspective of the machine, a natural appendage to the artificial.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
in general the contemporary approach to AI is can it simulate a real intelligence in some way, for example can it accurately categorise pictures
So yeah in this case I think certain strictly defined problems have solutions that don’t require anything close to consciousness, but it may all concatenate eventually into something larger, a network effect.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
And I think for many of this strictly definable problems, AI will continue to prove superior to natural intelligence.
 

vimothy

yurp
given enough data one could imagine a simple lookup function which appeared to be completely coherent in every situation but which nevertheless was totally stupid
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Yeah ultimately I think I agree with you in that the “hard problem of consciousness” is still intractable as far as our AI cutting edge is concerned.

I think we need a few breakthroughs in neuroscience before we can even see artificial consciousness on the horizon.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I think this is largely a paranoiac fantasy.
Which isn’t to say nobody out there wants to dictate our thoughts and opinions, I just think that such an endeavor is beyond even the scope of the likes Amazon, or the likes of whatever Rothschild descendent has a stake in every industry. Uber complex systems.
 

vimothy

yurp
no I agree with that, but I also think that the the search for AI has had the paradoxical effect of limiting human consciousness
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Limiting in what way? Like we start setting too narrow a definition of intelligence and/or consciousness, and by extension limit how well we can understand ourselves?
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Which isn’t to say nobody out there wants to dictate our thoughts and opinions, I just think that such an endeavor is beyond even the scope of the likes Amazon, or the likes of whatever Rothschild descendent has a stake in every industry. Uber complex systems.
That said, we do see how easy to manipulate most people can be, once they settle into their media echo chambers.
 

vimothy

yurp
more in the sense that we are offloading certain functions onto "AI", so that they are no longer the result of conscious choice
 
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