Re:Competitive Self-Play
by theptip on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:01PM
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> One interesting outcome of this type of AI is that no one knows what the robot's thinking
This is true -- however it's much easier to inspect the contents of an AI's thoughts/consciousness, since you can pause, rewind, disassemble, and reassemble it at will (unlike the human brain and our current pesky ethical experiment requirements).
So I think there's reason to believe that we could learn about our own consciousness through analyzing conscious AIs, particularly if they are implementations/emulations of the human brain architecture. (e.g. see the Blue Brain project that's simulating the mouse hippocampus).
Re:Competitive Self-Play
by jonny_eh on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:07PM
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But way messier. Which in a sense is what it's like to be someone researching the brain. Except with the brain, just getting access to the "code" is a huge challenge.
This is true -- however it's much easier to inspect the contents of an AI's thoughts/consciousness, since you can pause, rewind, disassemble, and reassemble it at will (unlike the human brain and our current pesky ethical experiment requirements).
So I think there's reason to believe that we could learn about our own consciousness through analyzing conscious AIs, particularly if they are implementations/emulations of the human brain architecture. (e.g. see the Blue Brain project that's simulating the mouse hippocampus).