Will AI Achieve Consciousness? Wrong Question

• “The real danger, he said, is” ⤴️
• “Will we simply abandon the brief Age of Photographic Evidence and return to the earlier world in which human memory and trust provided the gold standard, or will we develop new techniques of defense and offense in the arms race of truth?” ⤴️
• “the task of destroying a reputation for credibility is much less expensive than the task of protecting such a reputation.” ⤴️
• “we’re making tools, not colleagues, and the great danger is not appreciating the difference” ⤴️
• “AI in its current manifestations is parasitic on human intelligence.” ⤴️
• “extracts the patterns to be found there—including some of our most pernicious habits.” ⤴️
• “capacities for self-criticism and innovation to permit them to transcend their databases by reflectively thinking about their own thinking and their own goals.” ⤴️
• “not having the capacity to be “moved by reasons” (as Kant put it) presented to them.” ⤴️
• “it poses its own set of dangers—chiefly that it might be mistaken for strong AI!” ⤴️
• “Why would we want to create a thinking, creative agent out of Watson?” ⤴️
• “Turing test—has lured us into a trap: the quest to create at least the illusion of a real person behind the screen” ⤴️
• “even very intelligent people who aren’t tuned in to the possibilities and shortcuts of computer programming are readily taken in by simple tricks.” ⤴️
• “humanoid embellishments are false advertising—something to condemn, not applaud.” ⤴️
• “Licensing and bonding the operators of these systems, just as we license pharmacists, crane operators, and other specialists whose errors and misjudgments can have dire consequences” ⤴️
• “we can anticipate that even the most proficient system users would occasionally succumb to the temptation to “befriend” their tools, if only to assuage their discomfort with the execution of their duties.” ⤴️
• “a considerable part of the growing economic inequality in today’s world is due to the wealth accumulated by digital entrepreneurs; we should enact legislation that puts their deep pockets in escrow for the public good.)” ⤴️
• “We don’t need artificial conscious agents. There is a surfeit of natural conscious agents, enough to handle whatever tasks should be reserved for such special and privileged entities.” ⤴️
• “We need intelligent tools. Tools do not have rights and should not have feelings” ⤴️
• “however autonomous they might become (and in principle they can be as autonomous, as self-enhancing or self-creating, as any person), they would not—without special provision, which might be waived—share with us natural conscious agents our vulnerability or our mortality.” ⤴️
• “Being locked up is barely an inconvenience for an AI unless we first install artificial wanderlust that cannot be ignored or disabled” ⤴️
• “dismantling an AI (either a robot or a bedridden agent like Watson) is not killing it if the information stored in its design and software is preserved.” ⤴️
• “what we are creating are not—should not be—conscious, humanoid agents but an entirely new sort of entity, rather like oracles, with no conscience, no fear of death, no distracting loves and hates” ⤴️
• “boxes of truths (if we’re lucky) almost certainly contaminated with a scattering of falsehoods.” ⤴️
• “The real danger, he said, is” ⤴️
• “Will we simply abandon the brief Age of Photographic Evidence and return to the earlier world in which human memory and trust provided the gold standard, or will we develop new techniques of defense and offense in the arms race of truth?” ⤴️
• “the task of destroying a reputation for credibility is much less expensive than the task of protecting such a reputation.” ⤴️
• “we’re making tools, not colleagues, and the great danger is not appreciating the difference” ⤴️
• “AI in its current manifestations is parasitic on human intelligence.” ⤴️
• “extracts the patterns to be found there—including some of our most pernicious habits.” ⤴️
• “capacities for self-criticism and innovation to permit them to transcend their databases by reflectively thinking about their own thinking and their own goals.” ⤴️
• “not having the capacity to be “moved by reasons” (as Kant put it) presented to them.” ⤴️
• “it poses its own set of dangers—chiefly that it might be mistaken for strong AI!” ⤴️
• “Why would we want to create a thinking, creative agent out of Watson?” ⤴️
• “Turing test—has lured us into a trap: the quest to create at least the illusion of a real person behind the screen” ⤴️
• “even very intelligent people who aren’t tuned in to the possibilities and shortcuts of computer programming are readily taken in by simple tricks.” ⤴️
• “humanoid embellishments are false advertising—something to condemn, not applaud.” ⤴️
• “Licensing and bonding the operators of these systems, just as we license pharmacists, crane operators, and other specialists whose errors and misjudgments can have dire consequences” ⤴️
• “we can anticipate that even the most proficient system users would occasionally succumb to the temptation to “befriend” their tools, if only to assuage their discomfort with the execution of their duties.” ⤴️
• “a considerable part of the growing economic inequality in today’s world is due to the wealth accumulated by digital entrepreneurs; we should enact legislation that puts their deep pockets in escrow for the public good.)” ⤴️
• “We don’t need artificial conscious agents. There is a surfeit of natural conscious agents, enough to handle whatever tasks should be reserved for such special and privileged entities.” ⤴️
• “We need intelligent tools. Tools do not have rights and should not have feelings” ⤴️
• “however autonomous they might become (and in principle they can be as autonomous, as self-enhancing or self-creating, as any person), they would not—without special provision, which might be waived—share with us natural conscious agents our vulnerability or our mortality.” ⤴️
• “Being locked up is barely an inconvenience for an AI unless we first install artificial wanderlust that cannot be ignored or disabled” ⤴️
• “dismantling an AI (either a robot or a bedridden agent like Watson) is not killing it if the information stored in its design and software is preserved.” ⤴️
• “what we are creating are not—should not be—conscious, humanoid agents but an entirely new sort of entity, rather like oracles, with no conscience, no fear of death, no distracting loves and hates” ⤴️
• “boxes of truths (if we’re lucky) almost certainly contaminated with a scattering of falsehoods.” ⤴️