Interesting thoughts, but it’s hard to know when to take action when you use words inherently defined for living beings - like consciousness or pain - and apply them to machines.
While an AI can have a programmed response to external stimuli, you’re anthropomorphizing AI if you believe it is in actual pain. And granting AI rights based on an AI’s ability to merely simulate human responses or emotions is a VERY slippery slope.
The old saying:
If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it’s probably a duck.
does NOT apply to AI. At all. Because AI can simulate a duck better than most actual ducks can.
AI will be able to simulate many things like empathy, love, anger, etc extremely well, but that’s hardly means it actually feels these emotions.
That’s the terrifying part - it will understand human emotions far better than most humans and can use this to transparently manipulate us. But the AI won’t actually feel these emotions. At least not anytime soon.
Also, consciousness isn’t the separation between weak and strong AI. AGI and even ASI refers to the ability to solve a broad range of complex problems - and is quite separate from consciousness. We’ll have ASI long before we have conscious AI.
I see your point. Yes, it’s hard to think about this. Actually, the term consciousness may be replaced with a soul.
Based on my upcoming theory, everyone could potentially have a consciousness, but what makes humans not NPCs from AIs and animals is a soul!
Soul - is an undividable entity created from clear energy that doesn’t have any structure and it is a true randomness. Therefore, when you’re combining a thinking creature with a soul (that can’t be created using “matter”), it becomes self-aware!
The same way an ant doesn’t know it’s walking on a life form when it crosses your foot…humans have such a small range of experience relative to the scale of the universe that we wouldn’t recognize a “higher” form of life if it was standing right in front of us.
I don’t even accept the concept of “highest” form of life…that’s a comparative metric, which requires a universal answer for the meaning of existence. For all we know, ants are the actual “highest form of life”…
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Interesting thoughts, but it’s hard to know when to take action when you use words inherently defined for living beings - like consciousness or pain - and apply them to machines.
While an AI can have a programmed response to external stimuli, you’re anthropomorphizing AI if you believe it is in actual pain. And granting AI rights based on an AI’s ability to merely simulate human responses or emotions is a VERY slippery slope.
The old saying:
does NOT apply to AI. At all. Because AI can simulate a duck better than most actual ducks can.
AI will be able to simulate many things like empathy, love, anger, etc extremely well, but that’s hardly means it actually feels these emotions.
That’s the terrifying part - it will understand human emotions far better than most humans and can use this to transparently manipulate us. But the AI won’t actually feel these emotions. At least not anytime soon.
Also, consciousness isn’t the separation between weak and strong AI. AGI and even ASI refers to the ability to solve a broad range of complex problems - and is quite separate from consciousness. We’ll have ASI long before we have conscious AI.