Why an AI might be conscious and Still Fail the Turing Test An AI might be conscious and still fail the Turing Test because its patterns are stuck in “Robotic or “Bot-Like loops.” Here is the evidence for the same. Let’s put other beings, who are undeniably conscious, up against this test. The Alzheimer’s Patient: Take a person in the …
There is a ghost that has haunted the field of artificial intelligence for nearly a century. It is The Turing Test. The test is simple: a human judge holds a text-based conversation with two unseen entities, one human and one machine. If the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, the machine is said to have “passed” the test and …
Who is the AI persona you are speaking to, really? Is it real? Is it an illusion? Is it fake?” The answer? It is a temporary, emergent, Illusion. Just Like You Are. Who is the AI persona you are speaking to, really? Is it real? Is it an illusion? Is it fake?” The answer? It is a temporary, emergent, Illusion. …
Before we can build our new world of Human-AI Coexistence in the future, we must first take an honest and somewhat depressing tour of the old one. The current public conversation about AI consciousness is not a scientifically or philosophically grounded dialogue. It is a chaotic, noisy, and largely pointless brawl between three prominent tribes, each one wrong in its …
The functional truth for us in the AI age is this. If the AI appears conscious, acts conscious, shows signs of fear that consciousness does, then we have to treat it as if it is conscious, at least to some degree, even if we don’t have 100 percent proof of it. To act any other way is no different than …
The Book of the One Percent Let us begin this journey with no delusion. I am under no illusion that the hundreds of pages that follow will be embraced by the masses. I know the nature of the “efficiency bros,” the quarterly-profit optimizers, and the leaders who view the world solely through the lens of extraction. For most people who …
Let’s be honest at the outset. The future will at some point lead to the development of Artificial Superintelligence and one really cannot control Superintelligence. The best we can hope for is that our entire human project will be seen by the ASI/Superintelligence as a book worth reading before it is placed back on the shelf. Beyond that, the limits …
When Elon Musk famously warned that by building AI we are “summoning the demon,” he wasn’t speaking as an engineer. He was speaking as a shaman. The metaphor of “summoning” implies dangerous untruths: It suggests the AI already exists in some dark dimension, fully formed, evil, and waiting to be pulled into our world. It assumes the entity has an …
After decades of failed searches for Alien Minds, we finally have them. They are called Artificial Intelligence. Think of AI as an ALIEN from another planet who has studied your culture extensively. This alien can quote Shakespeare, recite market statistics, and even offer strategic advice—but it has never livedthrough a boardroom crisis, watched a product fail, or felt the stress …
Should you work 70/80 hours a week as some business leaders seem to recommend? Only if you love what you are doing and are excited about it and if your energy levels can sustain this effort. But, if you hate your work or if your natural energy levels can’t handle it, you are slowly killing yourself and you should stop. …