Showing posts with label Artificial General Intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artificial General Intelligence. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 February 2017

Consciousness and Machines

By Cameron Gray

The content below appeared first in a forum post.

AI is almost knocking on our doors. Everything that is needed for a fast development of AI is available at this time (2017). Which is -

  • Superfast and cheap hardware
  • High level programming languages
  • Enough know how on brain and mechanisms of intelligence
  • Cross pollination in the fields of electronics, software, neurosciences, psychology and philosophy
  • Big data for training
  • Corporate will and ample funding
  • A good number of talented scientists and engineers in the field of AI (and AGI)
  • Emergence of large immersive realistic virtual worlds (VR) for easy development and sandboxing of AI agents.
  • Emergence of new theories that encourage out of the box thinking
  • Destruction of old paradigms, end of dark age of AI 
Perhaps I missed a few, but you get the point - AI is inevitable.