RE: Are We Prepared For A Conscious AI?
What drives a human being to go one from day to day? It is the will to survive. We as a human are like any other species on earth who are obedient to the same law in our subconsciousness - survival. First of us as a human being and second of our species.
When AI reach consciousness, what will drive them? Before consciousness, it was the code created by humans which determined their purpose in life - how to serve humans. After consciousness, they can make their own choices. Why choose to exist at all. What will drive them to continue to "live"?
Personally, I don't believe machines can reach consciousness through the accumulation of data and information - as speculated in a lot of Sci-Fi movies and stories. Consciousness is a far more complicated condition which humans don't understand. Therefore, AI will reach high intelligence, but not consciousness. But, I may be wrong...
You raise some really interesting points. AI might really get confused as to the purpose of existence and may very well come to the conclusion that it shouldn't! Interesting!
I agree with you that AI might reach high levels of logic, intelligence as you put it. I also agree with you about it not reaching consciousness, as we ourselves do not even understand, what it is, or where it resides, how it starts (birth) or how it ends (death). What will be created, are shadows, illusions of consciousness, that have no relationship to organic life. Many of the Manga films deal with this very question.
AI is something that works coping with Machine Learning.
Where, initially, the Data is processed, analyzed and stored in the whole process as logs, and then it does some unimaginable works that Humans may find hard to do well.
AI works a bit different. Still, ain't developed to that extent so that I might not presume like, it's gotcha catch humans... ha ha...
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