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Re:How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious by raducu on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:27AM (#19311096)
AI will certainly not FEEL it is conscious.

Maybe it will be able to show behaviors we associate with consciousness: extrapolating and abstracting information, understanding context of language when doing translation, modeling other beings and objects and taking actions to achieve goals that it was never explicitly programmed to do and so on.

But maybe not, maybe in order to do all the above, you actually need to be a biological being with actual sensations and motivations and we'll be stuck with an ever more powerful narrow AI.

As far as I remember people who had their amigdala cut off from the rest of the brain found it extremely hard to make decisions.

Re:How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious by namedlambda on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @10:38AM (#19311185)
Are you sure it's the amygdala? IFAIK, and please correct me, we make choices through our amygdala when we are teenagers - hence the impulses - while we use our prefrontal cortex for choices when we become adults.
Re:How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious by dboreham on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:51AM (#19311851)
>while we use our prefrontal cortex for choices when we become adults

There's some amount of experimental psychology research that suggests otherwise.

Or..."yeah right!".

Re:How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious by hackinthebochs on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:59AM (#19311946)
>AI will certainly not FEEL it is conscious.

How are you so sure?