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But we don't need complex thought experiments to conclude that a conscious computer is ridiculously unlikely.
AI and software in general can profit from progress on these problems even if it can't build a conscious computer.
Benatar, by contrast, is a "compassionate anti-natalist". His thinking parallels that of the philosopher Thomas Metzinger, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence; Metzinger espouses digital anti-natalism, arguing that it would be wrong to create artificially conscious computer programs because doing so would increase the amount of suffering in the world.
His thinking parallels that of the philosopher Thomas Metzinger, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence; Metzinger espouses digital anti-natalism, arguing that it would be wrong to create artificially conscious computer programs because doing so would increase the amount of suffering in the world.
AI isn't necessarily about communicating with a conscious computer.
As our world becomes smarter, we must first remember a cognitive computer is not a conscious computer (yet).
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Seemingly artificial signals could come from super-intelligent (though not necessarily conscious) computers, created by a race of alien beings that had already died.
But no triumph in complicated games can bring us closer to genuinely autonomous and conscious computers: the test for true sentience would be a program bewildered and frightened by the knowledge of mortality.
So, analysts say, the efficiency gains appear to be what I.B.M. needs simply to keep pace in the increasingly cost-conscious computer industry as it matures and hardware technology, in particular, increasingly becomes a standard commodity.
We could also tentatively conclude that such awareness is substrate-neutral: if brains can be conscious, a computer program that does everything a brain does should be conscious, too.
He is trying to build the world's first conscious machine, a computer wrapped in the body of a toy orangutan named Lucy.
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