tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825618240462922869.post4724226023663060736..comments2023-06-02T21:55:49.745-04:00Comments on Ruminations on Everything: Westworld’s Consciousness RiffGerard Galluccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825618240462922869.post-47499818065058576002017-01-21T16:30:32.344-05:002017-01-21T16:30:32.344-05:00Thanks for your thoughtful comment, MB. But even ...Thanks for your thoughtful comment, MB. But even if we humans merge with machine, we will bring our emotions with us unless all that is merged is a simulation of us. Emotions are probably, almost certainly, rooted in the organic. The greatest mystery remains what is life?Gerard Galluccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15909722623126534873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3825618240462922869.post-39847140214705761312017-01-21T13:51:04.925-05:002017-01-21T13:51:04.925-05:00Interesting thoughts. I would add that current art...Interesting thoughts. I would add that current artificial intelligence has passed the point of; if presented with condition X, respond condition Y, and has moved on to adaptive learning and reasoning about how to respond to a changing environment, including responding to humans. One could think that it's hard to make a machine "human" because we humans are still learning what human is. But artificial intelligence will bring us much closer. We are not logical, sometimes rational intuiting machines constructed on prior experiences. <br /><br />Artificial learning and intelligence is parallel to that aspect of being human. While the underlying code must be logical or it won't run, it builds it's world knowledge like we do; trying alternatives to see which fail or work and adding that to it's knowledge pool. That's how machines will get close, like Data on Star Trek. The hardest part to build in are emotions like fear and love, because the composition of those feelings and reactions derived from nature and nurture are still too subtle and many to catalog and boil down to a series of elements like a periodic table that can be recombined to form other things. <br /><br />I think that our journey in that direction will merge two streams. One stream is robotics that we will use to augment ourselves, like prosthetics. The code that runs those is purely logical. The other steam is computer code that tries to understand and interact with us to provide services. Once you merge the human with the machines and the code, you won't have to solve emotions for the machine. You will have become the machine. The machine will have become you. You will have reached the singularity. MBishtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911802914507783575noreply@blogger.com