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This view doesn't require animals to weigh in for abstract qualities such as intelligence, consciousness, or sentience.
So you're sitting on the edge of your seat, but maybe you're also resting your chin in your hand, as you ponder technology, intelligence, consciousness, humanity, who we are and how we live now, and so on.
However, our knowledge of the concepts of intelligence, consciousness, what the human mind even is, remains in an infantile stage.
AI proponents such as Kurzweil (1999, see also Richards 2002) have continued to hold that AI systems can potentially have such mental properties as understanding, intelligence, consciousness and intentionality, and will exceed human abilities in these areas.
But the moment I used hot-button words like God, spirit, intelligence, consciousness, and worst of all, design (not remotely in a creationist context), there was fluttering in the dovecote, Dawkins drew the wagons together at TED, and now, a decade later, the same dogmatism is in effect.
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We require machines that are super-intelligent: intelligence is necessary; consciousness is an optional extra which in most cases would simply be a nuisance.
A neurologist, drawing on the experiences of patients over many years, explains the difference between intelligence and consciousness and the central role of emotion and feelings in forming consciousness.
It has not needed to be browbeaten into climate intelligence or consciousness, unlike many developed nations.
That's what Harari means by the "uncoupling" of intelligence and consciousness.
Many scientists doubt, even given the extraordinary advances in technology awaiting us, that AI can realistically match the combined intelligence and consciousness of human beings.
Harari's sometimes breathless, always compulsive inquiry leaves us with this one: "What's more valuable – intelligence or consciousness?" Google will be no help in providing the answer.
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