'If we can create a machine that will have consciousness on par with a human, this will eclipse everything else we've done.'
. "We were almost forbidden from talking about it — 'Don't talk about the c-word; you won't get tenure' — so in the beginning I had to disguise it, like it was something else.", questions in the field of artificial intelligence. And while to some it's science fiction — and indeed has been the plot of countless sci-fi books, comics, and films — to others, like Lipson, it's a goal, one that would undoubtedly change human life as we know it for good.
Of course, the biggest issue that the industry runs into with the question of consciousness — you know, other than the technological challenge that it would undoubtedly be — is the fact that, well, concept itself doesn't really have a firm definition, in the field or beyond it. Philosophically, consciousness is vague and debatable. And scientifically, as thenotes, efforts to tidily nail consciousness down to specific brain functions or otherwise signifiers tends to fall flat.
In other words: a machine with the ability to not only learn more and correct responsively, as machines do now, but a machine with the ability tohow it might be better, and evolving to suit that vision. It's a slight distinction, but an important one.
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