I had a teacher say to me once “a picture is worth a thousand words, a taste is worth a thousand pictures”. The teacher was referring to taste as experience. Learning to trust the sensation of things not working and facing it as clearly as we face the sensations of when things are working. Things get interesting because a computer can use a set of rules to learn from millions of pictures, yet never experience sensations.
What a profound question you ask. I have always thought intelligence is triggered by childhood trauma, which makes us aware we are separate and distinct from our parents. From that first inkling, we create a world in which we gain a modicum of control and autonomy.
I never thought about applying that to AI. Therapists of the future may very well be employed in assisting sentient robots to adapt to their awareness of their own mortality and vulnerability to extinction.
Great Annie the more I hear about AI the more I realise I don’t understand myself. Lex Friedman has similar views to what you have referred to here maybe understanding our vulnerability enables adaptability which would be essential for AI. I do wonder though if AI will always trail behind human intelligence. Are we too egocentric to be able to know what we really are?
I had a teacher say to me once “a picture is worth a thousand words, a taste is worth a thousand pictures”. The teacher was referring to taste as experience. Learning to trust the sensation of things not working and facing it as clearly as we face the sensations of when things are working. Things get interesting because a computer can use a set of rules to learn from millions of pictures, yet never experience sensations.
Would it lead to "A Space Odyssey"'s Hal?
What a profound question you ask. I have always thought intelligence is triggered by childhood trauma, which makes us aware we are separate and distinct from our parents. From that first inkling, we create a world in which we gain a modicum of control and autonomy.
I never thought about applying that to AI. Therapists of the future may very well be employed in assisting sentient robots to adapt to their awareness of their own mortality and vulnerability to extinction.
Great Annie the more I hear about AI the more I realise I don’t understand myself. Lex Friedman has similar views to what you have referred to here maybe understanding our vulnerability enables adaptability which would be essential for AI. I do wonder though if AI will always trail behind human intelligence. Are we too egocentric to be able to know what we really are?