An old favorite that might find new relevance with the growth of OpenAI. Substance of the article begins after the quote from John Stuart Mill. Some of my favorite passages:
"One reason for my own skepticism is the fact that in recent years the AI landscape has come to be progressively more dominated by AI of the newfangled 'deep learning' variety [...] But if it’s really AI-as-cognitive science that you are interested in, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that it may take a bit more than our cool new deep learning hammer to build a humanlike mind.
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If I am right that there are many mysteries about the human mind that currently dominant approaches to AI are ill-equipped to help us solve, then to the extent that such approaches continue to dominate AI into the future, we are very unlikely to be inundated anytime soon with a race of thinking robots—at least not if we mean by “thinking” that peculiar thing that we humans do, done in precisely the way that we humans do it."
My impression of cognitive science is that it is a branch of psychology/neuroscience and is largely focused of stimulus -> response, and studying what happens in between. There is a lot to learn here, but I would be surprised if it's the whole potato that unlocks blatantly sentient ai.
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An old favorite that might find new relevance with the growth of OpenAI. Substance of the article begins after the quote from John Stuart Mill. Some of my favorite passages:
"One reason for my own skepticism is the fact that in recent years the AI landscape has come to be progressively more dominated by AI of the newfangled 'deep learning' variety [...] But if it’s really AI-as-cognitive science that you are interested in, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that it may take a bit more than our cool new deep learning hammer to build a humanlike mind.
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If I am right that there are many mysteries about the human mind that currently dominant approaches to AI are ill-equipped to help us solve, then to the extent that such approaches continue to dominate AI into the future, we are very unlikely to be inundated anytime soon with a race of thinking robots—at least not if we mean by “thinking” that peculiar thing that we humans do, done in precisely the way that we humans do it."
It's not clear that "cognitive science" will be our savior here.. though I'm not opposed to them trying.
No, but it’s not clear that we’re likely to create sentience any other way
My impression of cognitive science is that it is a branch of psychology/neuroscience and is largely focused of stimulus -> response, and studying what happens in between. There is a lot to learn here, but I would be surprised if it's the whole potato that unlocks blatantly sentient ai.