Re: another hint of quantum consciousness

On 9/14/2024 8:44 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:

"Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message news:vc5jof$1ugle$3@dont-email.me...

On 9/14/2024 12:18 PM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

Yes, that's the typical comeback of religious believers.
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I don't know how it works. Let's find out. AI seems to be
getting there, and it requires no quantum theory. Just loads
of data and a lot of matrix math.

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Note how *quickly* an internet search turns up hits that you
wouldn't *think* of exploring, left to your own grey matter.
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Or, how AI can "hallucinate".
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"Experts" can explain how the *technology* works but can't explain
how a specific "conclusion" came about (without resorting to
reducing it to a hodge-podge of numerical probabilities).
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Asking an AI to justify its answer would be an amusing exercise.

 The same is true for a fair number of people I know.

No doubt.
But, most people have some *sense* for how they came to a
particular conclusion -- even if their reasoning is flawed.
An AI just spits out a set of coefficients to "justify"
it's "conclusion".
I have been very deliberate in the design of the AIs in my
current project.  I carefully consider what I will let them
"see" in making their decisions.  This, so the decision
making process is based on the sorts of "data" that a
human would LIKELY consider in those decisions.
E.g., when deciding whether or not to irrigate, I let it
consider the recent and projected *weather* (along with
the "needs" of the plants in question) -- but, not what
I ate for breakfast!  This to ensure it doesn't note
a correlation between my breakfast choices and the need
for supplemental water (perhaps I subconsciously have
been watering on days when I make scrambled eggs?  If
so, then *why*??)
Note that this may cripple the pattern matching (learning)
ability of the AI.  But, makes it easier to notice WHY it
made a particular decision based on the facts that "should"
influence that decision.