Reply to post: The more I study AI the more ot looks like conciousness is essential to it.

Calm down, Elon. Deep learning won't make AI generally intelligent

Tom 7

The more I study AI the more ot looks like conciousness is essential to it.

You can have knee jerk trained simple neural nets which just do what they are trained but most algorithms that play games or do other stuff seem to have the beginnings of self awareness. It seems that the best way to know what leg to move forward next uses a simulation of a simple model of the mechanisms involved to help predict what to do next in the current environment. More and more complex setups benefit from models of self and expectations of the environment. When you get to social beings that can talk you end up with part of the control system musing about the possibilities of popping down the pub for a pint (in your own head voice) because you need a beer after trying to put the world to rights on the internet - for which your genes have given you no model to experiment with before arguing with complete strangers.

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