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RE: Will Artificial Intelligence lead to a better life?
"...such a super intelligence which might help us eradicate war, disease, and poverty..."
A computer will never, and can never help with these. These are all created from the mindset of humans. They are not from outside forces. The healing has to come from within.
Also, computers cannot think outside the box.
Einstein said, "You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it." You have to create a shift in your thinking.
Computers are the definition of in the box thinking.
A binary computer's world is 0s and 1s. It will never, ever think of a 2.
Bucky Fueller stated, "We now have the capability to feed the whole world, now we just have to get everyone to understand this." - how to end poverty and war.
self awareness is an emergent property of a sufficiently complex network.
I disagree. I have evidence, unfortunately it won't be proveable until we understand a lot more about consciousness.
show me one case of self awareness that is NOT an emergent phenomena of a complex network.
I could respond with, show me an AI that has become self aware. But that just leads to name calling.
Lets take ghosts. No physical body, and yet, they are self aware. But, you would have to believe in ghosts for this to be any kind of evidence.
Nonetheless there will come a device that will allow us to see many entities heretofore invisible to the naked eye. And many of these entities are sentient. When this happens, my statements will become apparent.
It is coming, until then, we are in a predicament where you can't see my evidence, and you can't show me an AI capable of creation. :-(
In the meantime, you can go read some ancient buddhist texts that outline consciousness in a much deeper manner than I can write.
I'm not sure we can say "never." If we were one day able to clone or create a human brain, wouldn't that too be technically considered somewhat artificial intelligence? I also think in the case of diereses and sickness, AI can help to find cures quicker. Like you said though in your 2nd reply... we won't know or be able to prove any of this until we understand more about consciousness or the time comes when the technology is more advanced.
I can say never because I know that the brain and the mind are separate.
So, a fully copied brain does nothing but keep the body functioning.
Here is one clue:
Take a person and cut their arm, and even in the worst conditions it will heal itself.
Take a person and kill them. Then immediately put them on a respirator and get their heart beating again. They have all the vital signs of life, but if you cut their arm, and then clean the wound, sew it up, bandages and everything... the arm will never heal.