Artificial Intelligence Asked by Curious G on January 14, 2021
After having read something that Elon Musk said about artificial intelligence and how it could affect our lives, I’ve been reading about artificial intelligence, deep learning, etc. The recurrent topic is neural networks, which are used for "recognition tasks".
Although this is not my main question, can we say the following about neural networks?
Neural networks use the sigmoid function and gradient descent to fine-tune weights.
In any case, neural networks do not seem to really mimic any of the properties that we associate with intelligent beings, like humans, such as thinking outside the box, being able to observe, reflect and come up with innovations.
So, is there any artificially intelligent system that really mimics human intelligence?
As far as emulating an intelligent being, no. There are a few different potential architectures for possible AGI. Many of these are extremely infantile, as the bulk of AI research is in narrow AI, which focuses on creating algorithms that are highly specialized for a specific task.
With that being said, here is one supervised learning approach to this problem by Andrej Karpathy: Karpathy Method
OpenAI, also has a team who works on the AGI problem.
Correct answer by hisairnessag3 on January 14, 2021
Regarding "mimicking human intelligence" --> No, not even close.
Regarding this:
More specifically, can we say the following about neural networks?
Neural networks use the sigmoid function and gradient descent to fine-tune weights.
No, again. ANN's aren't required to use a sigmoid activation function. There are many other options that are used depending on the circumstances. Also, gradient descent is not strictly required either, even if it is one of the most popular optimization algorithms used with backpropagation. There are other ways to train ANN's - for example, genetic algorithms can be used.
Answered by mindcrime on January 14, 2021
No, we are not even near an algorithm that can be compared to human level general intelligence. You might have heard the claim that a neural network works similar to the neurons in the brain, but that's quite a stretch. Serena Yeung talks about this in the forth lecture of the Stanford course CS231n. Jump to 1:04:30 in the video, that's around where this part starts.
When it comes to the topic of consciousness and qualia, it is highly unlikely that we do possess the technology to create a conscious AI yet. I say highly unlikely because from a philosophical perspective we lack the ability to detect qualia in another being (called the qualia problem), at least based on our current knowledge. So we cannot prove, that we haven't already created artificial consciousness.
I've also gathered from your comments that you are wondering, why we are afraid of strong AI. I can recommend Superintelligence from Nick Bostrom. He discusses many different scenarios in which strong AI could be threatening humanity. Consciousness is usually not required for those scenarios.
Answered by Demento on January 14, 2021
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