Category: Conversatii

Personally, I think it’s possible that a conscious AI would need a LIVING AI first, and we’re not there yet. I think it’s a very bad idea to build a conscious AI, either deliberately or inadvertently. We should avoid building things that are truly conscious. It’s a kind of chicken-and-egg problem: in order to build something like this, we first need to know more about consciousness. The critical question is: What does it mean for a human to believe that a thing or a machine has consciousness? We tend to be anthropomorphic, that is, to project our own mind data, assign it to artificial language systems for example. This is harmful in itself; it will brutalise our conscience and turn us into sociopaths.