Artificial Consciousness: Why is matters and how to approach it
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Despite the rapid development in artificial intelligence, machines are nowhere close to the cognitive capabilities of humans. What could we be missing? This paper explores the idea that consciousness is the key to intelligence and the missing ingredient to artificial general intelligence. Any intelligence as advanced as humans or more advanced will have to be conscious, even though their consciousness may look different from ours. That consciousness is necessary for intelligence, including artificial intelligence should not be taken to mean that there is a hard cap for how advanced artificial intelligence can be. While consciousness as a concept appears to be extremely elusive, particularly the subjective, phenomenal aspect of consciousness, I claim that consciousness, if it exists, simply is the physical process that enables non-reflexive behavior. I support an eliminativist approach to understanding consciousness in the hopes of demystifying the idea of building artificial consciousness.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | December 3, 2021 |
| Date modified | December 5, 2022 |
| Publication date | January 4, 2022 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lee, Sun Woo |
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Subjects
| Subject | Artificial intelligence |
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| Subject | Consciousness |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license (CC0).
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- Lee, S. (2024). Artificial Consciousness: Why is matters and how to approach it. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/sr420hn6830
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Master's Theses, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University
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