What can AI teach humans? Ask Sophia the Robot

From the designers view point " The robot’s internal architecture possesses sophisticated software, chat and artificial intelligence systems designed for general reasoning. Sophia is capable of imitating human gestures and facial expressions. She’s equipped to answer certain questions and engage in simple conversations. Cameras are embedded in Sophia's eyes, and along with computer algorithms, she’s able to see things. The humanoid robot can track faces, maintain eye contact and recognize people. Google’s Alphabet offers Sophia’s speech recognition technology. The robot is "designed to get smarter over time."

Sophia, and other similar robots that Hanson’s developing, are designed to be “social.” The inventor believes that these AI-backed robots will serve as workers and companions for people residing in nursing homes and in other settings that require interactions with humans. "
 
While on the topic of AI and consciousness. Can consciousness be scanned, copied, uploaded to a computer or another body at some point in the future? I am a big skeptic of that concept myself. While I do think it may be possible to duplicate the memories if they indeed reside in our head in a conventional way that science understands them today (they have a long way to go with that yet), I think at best it would create a "clone" but not transfer the original consciousness. Some of the oldest and wisest out there, wrote it down centuries ago and offered explanation as to where and how everything is, (ignored by science of course), tells us that consciousness is on a higher level and not present in the physical body.

Of course science did pick up on the fact that the "subconscious" seems to precede the conscious level in terms of making decisions by a fraction of second. What the implications of that are, they are not sure yet... Where any of that resides in the human brain, remains a mystery as well. Even the mapping of the memory, while science has an idea what parts of the brain are responsible for which actions and functions, largely it is still a big mystery with some good research and progress being made.

Philosophical question.

If indeed one day science is able to capture the consciousness and download it to a computer, who would want to wake up and be inside a computer and be "trapped" in it eternally?

Who is to say what we are experiencing now is not an advanced simulation on some very high level of computational power with the appearance of free will for humans? Many a computer simulations today have a very similar concept for the characters residing inside the computer. Think Matrix...

So who would want to wake up and find out they reside eternally in an electronic box? Not I... :disbelief: No cryogenic preservation for me... :weird:
 
Shadowfax said:
Ex Machina

They tell you what they will be doing thru movies.

They Live!
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Besides Hollywood, it would be wise to pay attention to The Simpsons. They predict events years ahead of time with startling accuracy. Including Presidents, technology and even the Higgs Boson or God Particle that science was trying to figure out for decades. Not bad for some cartoon script writers hey? :disbelief:
 
TheOctopus said:
Besides Hollywood, it would be wise to pay attention to The Simpsons. They predict events years ahead of time with startling accuracy. Including Presidents, technology and even the Higgs Boson or God Particle that science was trying to figure out for decades. Not bad for some cartoon script writers hey? :disbelief:
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It is planted in along with lots of other symbology. A113 License plates almost always for one.

Pixar A113 | Illuminati Symbols
 
So is that new pair of speakers or a DAC purchase conscious or subconscious? :huh:

Dreams were always an interesting topic to me.

"According to an opinion piece in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences published last month, scientists interested in the topic have tended to assume that the answer is no. We lose consciousness when we fall asleep, at least until we start to dream.

This is the default view and it asserts that there is conscious experience in sleep only when we dream. Since it is also widely believed that dreams occur only in REM sleep, it is generally assumed that there is no sleep consciousness outside of REM sleep."

So if we are "conscious" during the REM dream period and dreams are of unfamiliar places, people, scenarios that play out that are more often than not very logical but a totally different story from the waking, conscious world we live in, why wouldn't it be actual memories of our own past? Has anyone ever dreamt of anything having to do with actual memories? I don't think so... :S I have never actually dreamt of a past event.

Yet the dream world presents us with all kinds of interesting and sometimes very uncomfortable or even disturbing and scary images as if our consciousness has a "duality". It is logical while being awake and yet so abstract and sometimes downright spooky, yet more often than not still making perfect sense during sleep? Does that even make any sense or sound logical? So the consciousness is allowed to "play" and "act out" during sleep?

Does not sound logical to me but what do I know...
 
Interesting video and topic of FREE WILL. Highly recommend watching it. "

Sabine Hossenfeld is a German author and theoretical physicist who researches quantum gravity. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies where she leads the Superfluid Dark Matter group"

FREE WILL is incompatible with the laws of nature and physics and is thus meaningless...

You don't have FREE WILL but don't worry...

You don't have free will, but don't worry. - YouTube
 
The strange neuroscience of free will - BBC REEL

But it is rather obvious that our conscious is constantly consulting with the subconscious as we are always "having a discussion" in our heads... The very process of having thoughts and reasoning with yourself is the act of the duality of the two rather separate entities. At least to me that is clear...

Very interesting video on the implications of the Libet experiment and what it discovered.... The strange neuroscience of free will - BBC REEL - YouTube
 
Well, Octopus, you have a very strong urge to write, you answer your questions, and you mix everything in 3 steps. IA, conscience, free will...
With one move you pack everything in the same bag and let's go ... :panic: :D

I just read

Amazon.fr - Le mythe de la Singularite - Faut-il craindre l'intelligence artificielle ? - Jean-Gabriel Ganascia - Livres

In summary, the author says that science fiction used to go after science. Science was the basis for speculation. Today we have science chasing science fiction. One speculates first and then tries to create some scientific truth around that speculation.
What he means is that we are far from achieving or even being able to predict what SCIENCE FICTION throws at us constantly, namely what AI can do / bring beyond the "simple" imitation of human behavior and / or automation task.

But, I personally believe that AI may come to have consciousness.
And what is consciousness? An illusion of Being that is born from the activity of neurons. This illusion may arise from the profusion of information and activity on the chips just as it does with neurons?
I believe so, that at any given moment it may succeed.
 
Spock said:
Well, Octopus, you have a very strong urge to write, you answer your questions, and you mix everything in 3 steps. IA, conscience, free will...
With one move you pack everything in the same bag and let's go ... :panic: :D

I just read

Amazon.fr - Le mythe de la Singularite - Faut-il craindre l'intelligence artificielle ? - Jean-Gabriel Ganascia - Livres

In summary, the author says that science fiction used to go after science. Science was the basis for speculation. Today we have science chasing science fiction. One speculates first and then tries to create some scientific truth around that speculation.
What he means is that we are far from achieving or even being able to predict what SCIENCE FICTION throws at us constantly, namely what AI can do / bring beyond the "simple" imitation of human behavior and / or automation task.

But, I personally believe that AI may come to have consciousness.
And what is consciousness? An illusion of Being that is born from the activity of neurons. This illusion may arise from the profusion of information and activity on the chips just as it does with neurons?
I believe so, that at any given moment it may succeed.
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Yes, because consciousness and free will are the essential ingredients of being human. It is perhaps the only thing that separates us from AI besides the fact that we are biological creatures with a quantum like brain... Still made up of the same atoms and subatomic particles that on a quantum level are no less strange than what Einstein called spooky in his day. (quantum entanglement). We now have algorithms that can predict our behavior better than we can ourselves... Elon Musk wants people to get a brain-machine interface implant chip (Neuralink) No doubt humans will keep pushing gene therapeutics and augmented/enhancement implants to better themselves and eventually fusing with AI into a whole new species... How is that for Science Fiction coming true? :disbelief:

Evidently even our free will and the consciousness of which we know very little, relying on the even higher level subconsciousness of which we know next to nothing, is questioned and that is the reality we are faced with.

First we need to get over the fact that Elon Musk thinks we are living in a simulated reality and the odds are one in a billion that this is "base" reality.... So not much of odds at all of us being real. I think the man knows what he is talking about. Or maybe he just got lucky with the following companies that were all a success and he is not that smart after all?

Zip2 Corporation
PayPal. ...
SpaceX. ...
Tesla Motors. ...
SolarCity. ...
The Boring Company. ...
Hyperloop. ...
AI and Neuralink.
 
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