[usconservative]

I think the point that most people miss or forget is that computers are really stupid machines. They only do what we tell them to do, exactly what we tell them to do, no more, no less.

AI "learning" is a programmable algorithm. We tell the computer to learn something and specify the parameters for it to "learn" within. A computer cannot make a conscious decision the way a human brain can. It just can't happen. The algorithms haven't matured to that degree and given there's billions of people on the planet there's just no way to account for all the different decisions on any given topic or the logic behind those decisions that people can make.

This is why IMO we'll have purpose driven AI (specific AI tasks) and it'll never become SkyNet.

And if it does become SkyNet? Chances are I'll be long gone by then anyway so what do I care?

[tarpit]

A computer cannot make a conscious decision the way a human brain can. It just can't happen.

At the “Could Machines Be Conscious?” meeting sponsored by the Swartz Foundation in 2001, the team concluded: “There is no known law of nature that forbids the existence of subjective feelings in artefacts designed or evolved by humans.

[samtheman]

I basically agree with everything you are saying... for now.

I do allow for the (right now very slim) possibility of some kind of functional equivalent to self-awareness developing along with a certain critical level of intelligence.

I agree with you right now it’s not there and appears to be remote and science-fiction-ish.

But I don’t discount the possibility. And I do think that though unlikely it could happen sooner than I think.