Re:Can AI Become Conscious?
by Reelin on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:27PM
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If you think you understand something, write a simulation which you expect to work based on that understanding, and it doesn't work - did you really understand it?
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Maybe, maybe your simulation is just buggy. I can write a simulator of how my wife would react to the news I'm cheating on her, and fail miserably, but I'm quite positive I understand how she would actually react.
Yes, you have to debug your code. I suspect that the people who implemented OpenWorm are capable of and have done that.
Re:Can AI Become Conscious?
by staticassertion on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:44PM
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OK, what if the simulation works, did you understand it before?
Not necessarily. A working simulation (for some testable subset of states) doesn't carry any hard and fast logical implications about your understanding.
On the other hand, assuming no errors in implementation then a broken simulation which you had expected to work directly implies that your understanding is flawed.