On 12/3/2014 4:44 AM, Simon Plouffe wrote:
Hello funsters,
a recent interview from the BBC to Hawkins,
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/12/03/hawking-l-intelligence-artif...
but well the article is in french, maybe there is an account on the bbc site about it ?
Recently I was talking to someone about that subject of the artificial intelligence : there is a comparison we can do with planes.
Saying that artificial intelligence won't happen is like saying that only birds can fly when a plane does fly and has wings, they don't flap, they don't sing but sure : they fly. In my opinion it is the same thing. Eventualy this will happen.
I agree. But supposing, as seems likely, that AI is realized in a different way than brains (as aircraft are different from birds) will the AI include consciousness? Is consciousness just a spandrel of human evolution or a necessary adjunct of intelligence only because of the historical accidents of evolution? Brent Meeker