> Line up all the things in the universe that are intelligent. They are all conscious.
The words “intelligent” and “conscious” are not sufficiently well defined to make that claim. By “intelligence”, do you mean:
1) “the ability to learn or understand or deal with new or trying situations”? Even current AI can do that.
2) “the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment”? That’s another rabbit hole itself.
3) “think abstractly as measured by [tests]”? I think current AI fails at this.
4) the thing which is separate to “body” in Cartesian Dualism? I don’t believe in that (i.e. souls) any more, so I can’t claim any AI would pass this test (nor any human).
And “conscious”? Is that:
1) Opposite of unconscious? I’d say they are.
2) Opposite of subconscious? ️
2)a) As in, not just autonomous functions like breathing or the equivalent for a robot? I’d say they are.
2)b) As in, “System 2 thinking”? ️I don’t know.
3) Critical self-evaluation? Generative adversarial networks pass, other than that I think AI fail this test.
4) Mirror test? Pass, but in a special case I don’t know the details of and which might well be newspaper fluff rather than proper AI.
The words “intelligent” and “conscious” are not sufficiently well defined to make that claim. By “intelligence”, do you mean:
1) “the ability to learn or understand or deal with new or trying situations”? Even current AI can do that.
2) “the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment”? That’s another rabbit hole itself.
3) “think abstractly as measured by [tests]”? I think current AI fails at this.
4) the thing which is separate to “body” in Cartesian Dualism? I don’t believe in that (i.e. souls) any more, so I can’t claim any AI would pass this test (nor any human).
And “conscious”? Is that:
1) Opposite of unconscious? I’d say they are.
2) Opposite of subconscious? ️
2)a) As in, not just autonomous functions like breathing or the equivalent for a robot? I’d say they are.
2)b) As in, “System 2 thinking”? ️I don’t know.
3) Critical self-evaluation? Generative adversarial networks pass, other than that I think AI fail this test.
4) Mirror test? Pass, but in a special case I don’t know the details of and which might well be newspaper fluff rather than proper AI.