Jens Comiotto-MayerScience-Fiction writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’.
https://www.ft.com/content/c1f6d948-3dde-405f-924c-09cc0dcf8c84
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴(12/n)
Today's #AI is definitely not conscious yet.
In a long but interesting dialog with #Stanford professor #AlisonGopnik* about how future sentient #AGI's would need to be reared, he even classified them as "#thermostats."
The starting point of the exchange is #TedChang's #SciFi #HugoAward winning novella,
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects."
There even is a link to the story's online edition:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Objects
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"Developing Al Like
Raising Kids -...
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...#AlisonGopnik & #TedChiang
This episode [of the pod #HumanCentered] is produced in
association with the #CASBS
project "The Social Science of
Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies."
In any event, the two are onto something regarding the next quantum leap in #AI development, embodiment**, even coupled with caregiving:
https://i.sonnet.fm/wxQ2SMqVSRUPKLUM9
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110318127194931631
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