{"id":327188,"date":"2021-08-18T22:26:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/is-the-human-mind-the-best-model-to-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T22:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:26:46","slug":"is-the-human-mind-the-best-model-to-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-the-human-mind-the-best-model-to-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Is the human mind the best model to copy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Is the human mind the best model to copy?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

The Holy Grail of AI research is called \u201cgeneral<\/a> artificial intelligence,\u201d or GAI. A machine imbued with general intelligence would be capable of performing just about any task a typical adult human could.<\/p>\n

The opposite of general AI is narrow<\/i> AI \u2013 the kind we have today. For example, you can ask Alexa to do all sorts of stuff but when you try to get it to do something it\u2019s not specifically designed for it fails.<\/span><\/p>\n

A general AI, on the other hand, wouldn\u2019t necessarily need to know how to do something before it tried.<\/span><\/p>\n

The current technological mindset in the field of machine learning dictates we accomplish GAI through the development of classical neural networks that attempt to imitate the machinations of the human brain. <\/span><\/p>\n

But what if that\u2019s a dead-end? What if GAI continues to elude us for as long as we fail to completely understand the human brain<\/a>? Or what if there simply isn\u2019t any way to replicate the human mind in a classical computer system?<\/span><\/p>\n

Scientists know startlingly little about how the human mind works. You can see how divided researchers in the hard science<\/a>s are when it comes to understanding cognitive function by Googling \u201cwhat is consciousness\u201d and checking out the diversity of expert opinions on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, it\u2019s arguable that trying to translate human brain activity into a digital replication is a lot like trying to describe the beauty of a sunset using only pantomime. <\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s because the human brain may actually be a quantum machine<\/a>. To put it in obscenely simple terms, our brains may process information in ways that a binary system (a classical computer) simply cannot. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the day we could be barking up the wrong tree by trying to imitate an organic machine we don\u2019t fully understand. <\/span><\/p>\n

But, luckily for humanity and any future sentient machine lifeforms that may one day exist beside us, there are more brains out there than just ours. And it seems at least possible that, based on our current level of technology<\/a>, some of them might make better blueprints for GAI. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cuttlefish or future robot overlord? <\/span><\/p>\n

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