Mostly from this post on linked in that had a petri dish of human brain cells learning to play doom. Part of me has seriously concerns about this because it raises some VERY uncomfortable questions about ourselves and what it means to be human, whether we really just reduce to nothing more than neurons and whether the person we take ourselves to be is just something “taught” and learning and nothing more meaningful or solid. I literally felt an existential crisis coming on by reading that.
I mean…what does it say about consciousness then?
The other thought is that I cannot see this leading anywhere good. This seems to be treading eerily close to slavery.
I’m sure many people have irrational reactions to news like this and start asking wild questions without even looking up what the thing actually is. Here is what the lab says
However, it’s not useful to compare the chips with human brains, he says. “Yes, it’s alive, and yes, it’s biological, but really what it is being used as is a material that can process information in very special ways that we can’t recreate in silicon.”
This wasn’t a peer reviewed experiment. It’s not science. It’s some programmers playing around with biology. It adds nothing to our understanding of consciousness.
What about this article where it’s showing that they are getting AI to be better able to distinguish objects, isn’t that something that shows it could develop a self.
Though the most upvoted answer IMO is using a VERY loose definition of the word dream and arguing that perception is more a continuum than anything else. The link they listed is broken but the title of it was “almost 90% of perception is invented by the brain” which seems like click bait to me.
That and when I see stuff like this which seems to try to turn things humans do into machine work makes me think that humans are special less and less and what makes us different from a mere machine?
You brought this up a long time ago. It’s click bait for sure. It’s taking the nanoseconds of delay between our senses and our brains and making something of it that it isn’t
I know nothing about the article and don’t have the time - But right off the top
“There was no programming, no training data, no instructions of any kind.” Seems to be contradictory to
(The neurons received signals about the game state,)
Inthedarkness, can you explain it their experiment?
What’s to worry about future technology, it’s going to destroy our biosphere and us the end, and we’re doing its best to help it reach that target just as fast as possible.
It would probably be a better investment of your little gray cells to worrying about your own life today, and let the devil have the future.
Because we human are sure aren’t going to change anything about our self-absorbed growing insanity, and we’re dedicated to thinking about it all as little as possible. The road goes on for ever and the party never ends, until it does.