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IS SELF AWARE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POSSIBLE? usm systems Aug 20 · 3 min read
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There is no such thing as intelligence, or self-awareness, as intelligence. Life, whether wise or not, is all. Life or intelligent life does not question its existence, it is not the purpose of life. The purpose of life is survival, the purpose of intelligence in life is to assure its survival, the purpose of any artificial intelligence is programmed for any purpose. If a program says “I am self-aware,” it says so. It does not develop this capacity or begin to question its existence by itself. This question stems from the utter confusion of the human mind. Humans are not actually self-aware, being self-aware means knowing about one’s ego’s existence, personality in the heads of many people, and ultimately that is not true. Being self-aware means knowing its thoughts, feelings, life story, and meaning. None of it is biological, it is a purely and purely cultural, conditional phenomenon. When this personality, historically known as “spiritual enlightenment,” is destroyed, the question of selfawareness does not arise, it becomes moot. Being aware of your environment and being self-aware is the same thing from the perspective of absolute reality. Every animal is perfectly selfaware, otherwise, it won’t work. The tests we run with animals, whether an animal identifies itself in a mirror, are as much about self-awareness as it is about laughter. Because identifying oneself in the mirror is of no practical https://medium.com/@usmsystems23/is-self-aware-of-artificial-intelligence-possible-711db5e58e29
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value to most animals. As such, it is a question of general intelligence, i.e. pattern-matching — which reflects that an animal is their own action, which leads to change, and not to anything else? Attack the cage that does not initially detect itself and reflect its own reflection, and sooner or later begin to ignore its reflection, unless it has only the minimum intelligence and ability to learn from its actions (say, like an insect). Animals learn, and it is a work of intelligence. I’m obviously intelligent, but if you ask me if I’m self-aware, I don’t even understand the question. My existence is not out of the question for me. As long as I understand my environment, I am, and there is no question about it. As long as I perceive my existence, I am self-aware. These are synonyms, which differ only in the state in which they are separated, which is considered a general state of consciousness. This is the same for any AI, the only difference is that the purpose of my existence is my survival as a living organism, and the purpose of AI is that we program it. This is why creating strong AI, especially self-development capability, is a dangerous idea, because whatever we give it a purpose, it will certainly be something other than its own (why not make it?), But its own survival is necessary to serve its purpose from, It may also be a secondary purpose, and an entity infinitely more powerful than ours can and will have hell in ensuring its own survival and fulfilling a poorly programmed purpose. It is necessary for https://medium.com/@usmsystems23/is-self-aware-of-artificial-intelligence-possible-711db5e58e29
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all respects, including our extermination. And all this has nothing to do with self-awareness. My body eradicates millions of bacteria every day because it is programmed to do it by nature and does not require any awareness.
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IS SELF AWARE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE POSSIBLE? - usm systems - Medium
Every time humans raise any other advantage over their survival, tragedy happens. Morality is basically a lot of thought. That is why we judge each other and kill each other. Creating a strong AI basically takes this highly fundamentally flawed egotism, has some sense of purpose, outsourcing it to an infinitely more powerful machine than us, and seeing what happens.
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