The science of human consciousness offers new ways of gauging machine minds – and suggests there’s no obvious reason computers can’t develop awareness.
You don’t need to understand a system to see what it produces.
This is actually exactly how neural networks work currently.
All we know is that for a given input it creates a given output. The actual formula it’s using to calculate those is massively obviscated.
For example they are using machine learning to predict fluctuations in magnetic fields. We don’t know the equations just it’s starting state and ending state. The AI can still do the calculation even though we can’t.
If we create an AI that performs as we want we don’t need to understand it’s internal workings.
The same way we have effective therapy even though we don’t fully understand how the brain actually works.
It won’t be less. Computers and machines already outperform in a huge array of tasks.
Computers massively outperform us at doing maths. Cars outperform us in speed of travel.
It’s the whole point of technology.
We will one day be capable of creating system that think and understand humans better than we do.
We don’t have to. We create an artificial approximation.
We don’t need to mimic our brains at all. We just need system that responds with the correct outputs to the inputs we give it.
Artificial intelligence if you will.
Humans aren’t all that.
How do you approximate something we do not understand?
How do we know when we have created ir, when we do not understand what is it?
If we aren’t all that won’t anything we create be less than all that as well?
You don’t need to understand a system to see what it produces.
This is actually exactly how neural networks work currently.
All we know is that for a given input it creates a given output. The actual formula it’s using to calculate those is massively obviscated.
For example they are using machine learning to predict fluctuations in magnetic fields. We don’t know the equations just it’s starting state and ending state. The AI can still do the calculation even though we can’t.
If we create an AI that performs as we want we don’t need to understand it’s internal workings.
The same way we have effective therapy even though we don’t fully understand how the brain actually works.
It won’t be less. Computers and machines already outperform in a huge array of tasks.
Computers massively outperform us at doing maths. Cars outperform us in speed of travel.
It’s the whole point of technology.
We will one day be capable of creating system that think and understand humans better than we do.