Strong AI and Consciousness #3

Participants’ Questions for Su Turner’s Nov. 19th:
“Strong AI and Consciousness”
I. Hello everyone. I'm Su Turner, a Co-organizer for SAPG.
Despite being very busy recently, I can contribute to quite a few more Meetups. I'm really excited about the 'Strong Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness' Meetup. For this month, we all can continue sharing ideas we run into when we think philosophically about consciousness.

A. Important Philosophical Questions:[1]
1. Turner: If we can create Strong AI (‘S-AI’), then can human consciousness accompany S-AI?
a. This reminds us that we’re already developed enough to achieve S-AI.
i. Will we be able to create (further) an inanimate being whose intelligence eclipses our own?
ii. If so, what might go wrong with this?

2. S-AI is what motivates us; so it suggests a “Turner” Question:
a. Does this mean that some Strong-AI entities have (or could have) their own consciousness? Or, do Strong AIs merely confer consciousness to some inanimate beings?
b. These beings could be specifically quantitative and technological phenomena.[ST1]
i. Could these “Quant-Tech”[2] things have features anything like human consciousness?
c. Will S-AIs be superior to humans generally, and if so, in what ways?
i. Would the S-AI still not have ConSci? If not, then why?
ii. Will it just be superior to humans? What's the answer?

B. How Could a Human Command to AI be misunderstood or incomplete?

1. A technical singularity (I termed ‘QuantTechSing’) is a hypothetical moment where an AI becomes superior to human intelligence.

a. The superiority and the QuantTechSing might also cause quite serious social problems. (eh-eh)
b. We may come to a place when a singularity may prevent us (humans) from understanding and performing; and AI would take over.
2. Some think that computation equipment cannot have the intelligence of a human being because it took millions of years to evolve these abilities.
3. If you want to, review the basic definition of singularity. We probably will not need to review physics to understand it.

C. Stephen Pinker: there’s no reason to expect a “singularity” because there is no evidence that it is possible or probable.
(This summary of the issues in the Meetup should help everyone get a baseline of what is going on in the discussion.)

Thanks for participating everyone, I'm happy to get in touch.
Su

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