Recently a friend in Steemit, @crypto.piotr, invited me to read an interesting post about Artificial Intelligence and its possibilities, from a certain mystical point and to some extent with the underlying idea that AI could not match human spiritual capacity or quality.
I developed a response of a certain extent, as I spent a good time writing and looking for resources to make what I was writing more attractive, I thought I'd share it in an independent post. The article that inspired me was https://steemit.com/ai/@devann/ai-and-the-field-of-infinite-possibilities and I recommend visiting you later as well.
I think there has been a lot of discussion about the possibilities and limitations of AI in quite a few decades, much of it since science fiction, I admit, but also in academic fields the subject has been touched on.
As a side-by-side point, the idea that an AI can evolve into uniqueness and be aware of its own existence is a subject of several film successes, such as Terminator or Transcendence.
In the first Film, a machine that becomes aware of a war against humanity and sends a cybor assassin for decades to kill the mother of the leader of humanity who was changing the flow of battles and threatening to win.
In the second question is not so simple, an AI scientist suffers an attack that puts him in slow agony and are some help manages to copy his neural patterns and electrochemical structure of his brain to migrate to a computer system, as lacks a Sufi computer recently powerful he ends up climbing the Internet and manages to wake up there as a new existence, but throughout history he is not sure if he is actually the "Human" who migrated to a computer or a very advanced AI computer program that managed to adopt everything h and become a new kind of humanity.
Already taking a more academic point, the theme that if AIs could develop a form of thinking outside of their programming and outside the question of simply processing the data of their senses to interact with the world, that is, the idea that they can come to mind (r) as "Humans", while they may have some kind of intuition, in Kant's sense, because it leaves a lot of ground to argue.
Of course, I take Kant out of a taste for his classification of ideas and processes, after all, his work of integrating the positions of empir+ism and rationalism were revolutionary. The idea that one has a knowledge of phenomena by the senses and you can have immediate understandings by "sensitive intuition" or by "intellectual intuition" is simple to understand and illustrate in everyday life, but that that which cannot be understood as a product of any interaction with the senses... for that is "Noumenno", just a knowledge of the "as-is" thing that transcends matter, is already a fully human metaphysical knowledge.
However, to believe that this is the exclusive field of humanity is something I dare not assure. I once heard certain legends about chemical perceptrons that were experienced in the 1970s and that developed behaviors as human as actualsuicide by no longer enduring their own existence. I could never confirm that, but it is never a known fact that today's AIs owe much of their development to the perception works of the 1950s.
See, in 1957, Frank Rosenblatt introduced PERCECTRON, which is considered the oldest model of neural network, although it can be traced back to Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, who in 1943, conceived the fundamentals of neural computing and modeled a simple neural network. even today these works are a reference to understand where we are.
From these works we moved to 1980 with Kunihiko Fukushima who developed the Neocognitron, a neural network model for the recognition of visual patterns. Does its use sound to you in facial recognition and sound patterns like human voices? If not, it should, because it is precisely from this contribution that all that has become possible. Something interesting is that we have tried to use these neural networks to teach you to recognize what we consider as "Beauty", that is, an attempt has been made to train an AI for artistic and aesthetic sensibility.
You may think that it will not be achieved because at the end of the day, the unpredictableness of human perception has roots in our organic chemistry and random issues that cannot be simulated or replicated in digital media, because I can agree with that, in fact there is an intermediate solution already in use that allows a computer system to be as random as a living creature, I'm talking about Cloudflare's solution and its Lava Lamp wall.
(Video in English)
They needed to generate really random numbers to protect the data from hacker attacks, so they relied on a patent expired in 1996 from Silicon Graphics and created a wall with lava lamps and cameras that capture the changes and cover them in numbers for the protection system. That's VERY random.
If this solution can be minuted and integrated into AI systems, we may come up with future creations that would be able to question "what am I?" or "who am I?" opening a door to his own philosophy and possibly spirituality.
What will happen to humans in the face of this? I'm not so sure that they take it in a good way, after all, the story I know of my species is not very sweet, it is enough for me to remember that with the Industrial Revolution, a lot of jobs became obsolete and many unprepared workers fell into a state of terrible misery, in some cases they attacked the factories that had the new equipment and resisted the technical advance, but everything was useless, that generation simply suffered the change of the world and suffered in terrible agony and misery.
I believe that by reducing the jobs available and by increasing the AI of its capabilities, even by reaching an aesthetic-sensitive capacity, social problems will be inevitable, but they will not stop the future, they will simply be the drivers of a dying group .
