tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1880686624845718403.post7915922255962634903..comments2024-03-13T09:26:28.888+00:00Comments on Ashley R Pollard: Principle of Angels Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13666947574653683678noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1880686624845718403.post-51637162444265551212013-09-09T15:41:34.226+01:002013-09-09T15:41:34.226+01:00Thank you for the comment. In my opinion what we a...Thank you for the comment. In my opinion what we are seeing with automation is artificial intelligence agents, which can arguably be classified as weak AI as they functionally approximate the behaviours that biological minds exhibit without any readily apparent consciousness being present.<br /><br />This leads into discussions around what is consciousness, how does it differ from intelligence and the difference between sapience and consciousness etc? Ashleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13666947574653683678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1880686624845718403.post-86701596823833318212013-09-09T13:09:05.682+01:002013-09-09T13:09:05.682+01:00I seem to remember that nuclear fusion has been fo...I seem to remember that nuclear fusion has been forty years away since I first heard of it in the 60s. I suspect that it will still forty years right up until the time someone realises that people in general would rather have their energy from a distributed rather than centralised system. Whether that will be photovoltaics, energy harvesting windows, LENR or if they live in Sussex a gas well in the back garden or something else completely only time will tell.<br /><br />As for AI, leaving aside the question of whether we would recognise a higher intelligence if we saw it, I think the problem* is a different one. Over the last 50 years a great many jobs have been lost to automation in industry, and with automation set to make inroads into the service industries in the next couple, the whole social landscape is set to change. Whether the upcoming upheaval will produce a utopia, distopia or something that is boringly and messily familiar, I would not like to predict. But I would suggest that AI will always be problematical until we come to terms with living in a more or less automated society.<br /><br />* this guy can describe the problem much better than I can http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_our_jobs.html<br />http://andrewmcafee.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com