Comments on: Computers with consciousness: Stanley Kubrick

By: vanvonu

vanvonu — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:25:52 +0000

The least that we owe to Arthur C. Clarke is to get his name and his quote correct: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

By: vanvonu

vanvonu — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:21:15 +0000

A patent can be a red herring since no operability is required to obtain one.
Ray Kurzweil is fully self-convinced that when a computer’s memory becomes equal to that of a Mensan, the computer will be capable of consciousness, which is not a function of memory. If it were, at what point would an Alzheimer’s patient cease to be conscious?
We needn’t worry until the first computer-controlled robot builds the first computer-controlled robot from scratch, without any assistance in any way, shape, or form from a human being.
CAD (computer-aided design) is as close as we’ve ever gotten to such a scenario, and no one has ever been made redundant by a CAD program.

By: John browne

John browne — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:02:16 +0000

Hi TW,
Unfortunately, silicon based computing may be a thing of the past. See “old” article below. More importantly, quantum computing may mean the end of Moore’s Law, created to prevent artificial intelligence from going off on it’s own, even “reproducing” and improving itself much faster than humans currently do. Finally, once you enter the “quantum world” with unconscious machines all bets are off.

To potentially have the power to “connect” with the universe through non locality and entanglement, means “self” teleportation and non materialization (invisibility) become possible properties of the quantum computer itself. Combine these universal omnipresence qualities with mythical God like omniscience, omnipotence, and No human like self awareness and you’ve really opened up a potential existential Pandora s Box.

I hope humans are wise enough to this without accidentally creating an a-conscious intelligence that sees us as some “thing” that needs to be “managed” at best, or allowed to become extinct as part of some evolutionary game theory “they” will learn from us. Will we become that wise in the next 100 years when quantum computing will become a reality? http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/125221-scientists-create-quantum-computer-in-a-diamond

By: theodorewesson

theodorewesson — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:17:09 +0000

You make a good point.

Also, in a weird way, you make think on something tangential,…

* silicon-based ‘super intelligent machines without a conscious’ (i am assuming quantum computers are also silicon-based),… if one can get close enough to them, do not seem to survive when there is water or coffee poured on them, let alone being struck by a bullet.

By: John browne

John browne — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:52:09 +0000

Hi Jon, I agree. However, although human culture may not have to face conscious machines, we will certainly face something far more dangerous and probably in this century. Super intelligent machines without a conscious. Given the doubling of computer power every 18 months, computers will far surpass human intelligence by the end of this century. Combine that information processing ability with new quantum computing, and without a real self awareness and you’ve got potential existential problems. Let’s work on that real coming challenge and not some imaginary problem.

By: henry

henry — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 03:30:06 +0000

You are wrong about machine intelligence. A human can provide stimuli (text, numbers, smells, sounds, images, and tactile) to the machine but does not provide algorithms to follow. A reward mechanism can direct the machine to do what is desired. Author C Clarke (The writer of 2001: a Space Odyssey) said that all technology looks like magic to those who don’t understand it. Machine intelligence is not magic. It is real and the ramifications are frightening.

By: theodorewesson

theodorewesson — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:58:47 +0000

Ahhh, Joni!,…

“Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!”

Big Yellow Taxi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH70ubM

By: brad

brad — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:32:17 +0000

Dismantling the machine on the way to greater consciousness — I always liked ‘2001: A Space Odessey’, but that adds a whole new interesting twist I hadn’t really thought of.

By: joel

joel — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:05:19 +0000

good as always, weren’t the educational programs instituted in the 50’s designed to kill individualism. didn’t the beast become self aware in the 90’s, if ai can truly be, then some professional regurgitator (phd), leave the barn door open in 2005 or 06, something we were told would never happen, and the beast escaped. now with 4g everywhere and 5g in russia the beast can monitor everything, what happens if when listening to the kings’ plans it decides humans are threat to earth and decides to take action against humanity.

By: babylovet

babylovet — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:26:16 +0000

that’s the funny part about it, we create the machines and then can forget they are our creations and thus endow them with independent will.

and then god creates us and we forget we are god.