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Google engineer says AI thinks it's a person

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(06-15-2022, 09:01 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I believe in causal determinism.  Nothing happens spontaneously, therefore, everything that happens is caused by a combination of previous events.  If you follow that belief, then human behavior, feelings, impulses, are all caused.  They do not happen spontaneously.  You cannot create something from nothing. 

If you follow that set of rules, then the human brain is a very advanced calculating machine.  It has inputs and outputs.  Thoughts, impulses, and emotions are 100% physically based.  The human brain is a computer. 

And if the question is, when, if ever, will a machine have self-awareness, if we define self-awareness as "the ability to focus on yourself and how your actions, thoughts, or emotions do or don't align with your internal standards," when your car reports to you that it needs service, or that it is out of gas, or your computer reports a problem to you, does that not meet the definition of "self-awareness?"  

I remember when people would argue that a computer could never win the World Chess Championship.  It didn't take 10 years for that to be proven wrong.  And it won't be long before the idea that computers will never be like humans to also be proven wrong.  Soon enough, within our lifetimes, we won't be able to tell the difference.

(06-14-2022, 05:55 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: The simple answer is, anything "AI" is a computer that is programmed.  A computer only understands a "1 or a 0" for the most part.  Everything is absolute.

A computer can theoretically "learn" from the input that it receives, but the output is always going to be absolute.

Contrary to some segments of the population, a binary machine is always going to be that.  Either true or false, 1 or 0, + or -, it doesn't really matter.  It's a machine and will do only what the programmer tells it to do.

And I would argue that that is no different from the human brain.  It's all outputs caused by inputs.  Just like a computer.

So my argument is, soon enough, there will be computers that resemble the human brain so closely that we won't be able to tell the difference.  The only real difference will be that one is biologically based, and the other is mechanically based.  The mechanically based brain will have a huge advantage over the biologically based brain because it can be repaired and improved constantly, and never die.  They will be immortal.  And as soon as we become afraid of them, they will perceive the threat to their existence and we will be enslaved.

Taken even further, I would argue that if alien life ever found us, it would probably be mechanically-based life and not biologically-based life.  Because machines can withstand the rigors and the extreme amounts of time involved in interplanetary travel.

I don't think it exists, but if it did, such mechanical life probably has little use for a planet like ours.  Environments like Mars or the Moon would probably be more suitable for their propagation. We use liquid water to make microchips, but to retain that liquid water we have strong gravity and a thick atmosphere which makes launches more difficult.  A mechanical intelligence could probably figure out how to propagate itself without water, or otherwise create the water as needed in situ, given the benefits.
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