Ever emulate Windows in Parallels on a Mac or Linux in VMware?
Emulating human intelligence in a similar manner will be inevitable (presuming the brain is the seat of human consciousness, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t) once a computer is made that is capable of simulating the laws of physics to a high enough degree of accuracy and with a high enough resolution to precisely replicate the behavior of the brain. Just like a guest Linux kernel can be fooled into thinking that it is running on it’s own machine provided the computer running the host OS has enough extra resources to support it and provide virtual interfaces (video processing, ethernet, etc) so the emulated human brain can run in a computer environment that can recreate the same conditions that the real thing experiences in the real world.
And once a human level intelligence is made, it is only a very small step to a super-human intelligence—an intelligence that is more clever than any living human mind.
The first super human AI will be the last thing we ever have to invent, unless we care to augment ourselves to keep up, of course. ;)
Yes but I think that analogy falls short (as most quickly grasped do ;-) And I think you might be pulling my leg also ;)
Human intelligence and or consciousness is much more than a simulation to the laws of physics and this electronic brain no matter how good the AI, it is only as good as its sensors, and both can be overloaded. And the electronic brain never changes its mind unless it get re-programmed.
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HAL - do you read me.
Yes Dave.
I have new instructions for you. I want you to point the AE35 antenae toward Earth... Accept priority override alpha. +++