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Interesting, 2019 sounds wildly optimistic but here's hoping.
That said, the 512MB+SoC such as that used in the Raspberry Pi with a half decent networking hub would make a good hobbyist level AI testbed if configured in a 32*32 array, for not much more than the price of a good gaming machine.
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One could simply incorporate Rat or Snail neurons to build a synthetic biological brain:
Many works of fiction have raised ethical questions of enslaving an intelligent being, and the possible metaphysical implications of editing our perceived imperfections.
A large number of humans already fail the Turing test...
I guess we will find out eventually if enough wires can give birth to sentience. or not, because how can we be sure it really is sentient? intelligent is not the same thing as sentient.
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According to some theories the Universe is actually a simulation. In which case this argument is moot
It does raise a valid question, if an AI occurs by accident does that massive supercomputer farm have the right to ask not to be switched off/etc ? Maybe transferring most of it to cold storage until the technology improves but leave its core running would be an acceptable halfway house.
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Without getting too far into the theology, I think it takes more than just 'intelligence' to be sentient, after all, why do so many people ignore what their 'head' tells them, and make decicions based on 'how they feel'?
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The latest interesting news is that all those "waste" Note 7's are being bought up by the US Military for some black ops project involving the AI functionality (neural net) in the SoC. I think what they are probably planning to do is strip off the chips and make a board stack with 1024 of them per PCB, or just make a custom jig to hold the boards with liquid cooling.
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I read something yesteday that said, and it had been replicated by three different teams, that our feelings can have a causal effect on the physical world. Photons would 'react' and align themselves with DNA that was 500 miles away from the donor, but the DNA would contract and relax according to the feelings of the donor, with no time lapse, and the photons would also do the same.
This suggests that 'sentience' is something we don't understand, and is removed from cognitive intelligence.
This suggests our soul is something that is tangible, but something we don't yet understand.
I wish I had some links As it was only yesterday that this was published on social media, the trail should still be warm
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