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Show 5 The most sophisticated artificial intelligence right now is IBM's Watson, who just beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy. Yeah, it's really cool, but in a way it's just an awesome Trivial Pursuit robot. With the realities of how slowly and how metered it is for scientific progress, technological progress, and software development to unfold, those scenarios where somehow the artificial intelligence attains a consciousness of its own and somehow subjugates its programmer just seem pretty wildly unrealistic. So, there's not a huge chance of rogue cyborgs taking over? Keeping grounded in the fact that these are software algorithms and technological outcomes created by humans, I just don't see a mechanism for this type of cataclysmic subjugation of humans by artificial intelligence to occur. (IRE ET1 111 5% 511iLOILARITY uivIRT TAT H 1HE SOURIS THEY ExeREIZING Fog And what are differences between artificial intelligence and actual intelligence? These are questions that professors have been studying all their lives and just duke the hell out of each other, fighting for their particular pet theory. I wish there were some sort of clearcut precise answer. It's interesting. I think a lot of it is going to come down to neuroscience. As a neuroscientist myself, I'm of course biased to make a statement like that. But a lot of that question comes down to the nature of the human organism. At the end of the day, are we really really sophisticated machines that just run off a carbonbased platform? Because if we are, if that's "all that there is" to our identity and cognition, then there's clearly going to be a point in time at which we're going to be able to replicate that with a really sophisticated degree of emulation. However, on the other end, we are dualistic in some way, whether that dualism is a sort of a Buddhist paradigm of a mind and a soul, or a Christian paradigm of a spirit, a breath of life, then that's a game changer. And I think a lot of people would be surprised to know that it's actually not an open-shut question in science. This a very divided issue in the field of philosophy of mind. You have very smart, mainstream philosophers of mind who argue stridently for a dualistic paradigm of the human brain, the foremost of which is probably David Chalmers. As far as how to think about the potential for machines to really attain intelligence in the way we think of it with human beings, I think it's going to come down to the ultimate question of whether or not there is a dualistic quality to the human organism. OBSERvE I HAVE QUERIED THE MOTHER eirtRIN RE51MING LupiG RiLmENTs. FristralAVINCI |