Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm

Re:Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm by Razengan on Friday October 28, 2016 @07:14PM (#12821580)

> As an AI developer you have access to the AI code and memory.. How could you not replay the encryption process used by the AI since you know the state of what it "knows" constantly?

This brings up a different "scary" subject: Could this someday be possible to perform on humans?

If you knew the "code" and understood the workings of the brain and how it stores memory, could we simulate and "replay" a "copy" of a person and see everything they would do in response to different inputs?

Would that lay to rest the debate between Free Will and Determinism?

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Re:Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm by drdeca on Saturday October 29, 2016 @10:25PM (#12827785)

Scott Aaronson wrote an essay titled "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" which talks about the idea of, depending on what level of detail would be needed to simulate a human brain in a way that reflects consciousness, the no cloning theorem could maybe prevent such a copy from being made. It might be impossible to make copies and thereby see what the person would do in the different situations.

And so, due to states originating in a way that we can't possibly know, this would maybe allow/explain/whatever free will.

I'm not endorsing that idea, but I thought it was relevant to what you were talking about and worth considering.

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