We don't know what exists behind the veil of human secrecy. And its possible there is a veil beyond that one as well.
But in terms of what exists in the public domain, these are all "Difference Engines". "Decision Support Systems" in the old nomenklatura, or "ML"/"Machine Learning" in a more modern parlance.
They work pretty well, these days. Surprisingly well, in my opinion.
But there is a lot of debate about whether any of us can solve "The Hard Problem of Consciousness". Some say it's already happened. Some say it can never happen. I try to remember the Clarke quote: "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic." But also that doesn't mean that I think that we'll ever have a "true AI".
We don't know what exists behind the veil of human secrecy. And its possible there is a veil beyond that one as well.
But in terms of what exists in the public domain, these are all "Difference Engines". "Decision Support Systems" in the old nomenklatura, or "ML"/"Machine Learning" in a more modern parlance.
They work pretty well, these days. Surprisingly well, in my opinion.
But there is a lot of debate about whether any of us can solve "The Hard Problem of Consciousness". Some say it's already happened. Some say it can never happen. I try to remember the Clarke quote: "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic." But also that doesn't mean that I think that we'll ever have a "true AI".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
I'm in the "never" camp.
Adding more and more clockwork to the clock will not make it conscious.
Yep. Me too. But also I am in the "maybe, effectively, it almost doesn't matter."
Ants get a lot done.