TagliatelliMonster
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science fiction? perhaps...but that means that Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Bill Gates are all pushing science fiction...in fact they seem rather worried about it, since they keep warning the public about the potential dangers of machine intelligence...
Again I have to point out that respected skeptic/ atheist Sam Harris finds it "unimaginable" that AI's will not come into existence. He points out that the viability of artificial intelligence (and by extension, “artificial/ simulated history”, ”artificial memories” etc. etc ) all follow logically from an atheistic materialistic worldview “I cant imagine a scientist not granting that- number one, we are going to make progress in computer design [to that extent]…and two- that there is nothing magical about biological material as far as intelligence is concerned”
Again Harris is echoing what most scientists believe– that it’s not only possible…it is inevitable (at least in some form).
What those people are talking about is vastly different from the computer you described, which would require near-infinite power.
but you are thinking in terms of weak- narrow AI....like a video game character which has programmed to exhibit traits of human consciousness....it is only mimicking consciousness....true artificial intelligence will be self-aware and conscious in the same way that humans are
The complexity of the code, doesn't change the fact that it's still just code running on a chip.
No matter what the program does, it's still just a program. The model it builds in memory is still just a virtual reality. Not actual reality.
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