{"id":92567,"date":"2019-06-24T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=92567"},"modified":"2019-06-24T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:38:44","slug":"is-artificial-consciousness-the-solution-to-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/is-artificial-consciousness-the-solution-to-ai","title":{"rendered":"Is artificial consciousness the solution to AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an emerging field of computer programming that is already changing the way we interact online and in real life, but the term \u2018<em>intelligence<\/em>\u2019 has been poorly defined. Rather than focusing on smarts, researchers should be looking at the implications and viability of artificial consciousness as that\u2019s the real driver behind intelligent decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consciousness rather than intelligence should be the true measure of AI. At the moment, despite all our efforts, there\u2019s none. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Significant advances have been made in the field of AI over the past decade, in particular with machine learning, but artificial intelligence itself remains elusive. Instead, what we have is artificial serfs\u2014computers with the ability to trawl through billions of interactions and arrive at conclusions, exposing trends and providing recommendations, but they\u2019re blind to any real intelligence. What\u2019s needed is artificial awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/elon-musks-and-the-need-for-symbiosis-with-machines-in-the-age-of-ai-600x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-92569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/elon-musks-and-the-need-for-symbiosis-with-machines-in-the-age-of-ai-600x315.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/elon-musks-and-the-need-for-symbiosis-with-machines-in-the-age-of-ai-600x315-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/is-artificial-consciousness-the-solution-to-ai\">Continue reading \u201cIs artificial consciousness the solution to AI?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consciousness rather than intelligence should be the true measure of AI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1521,2019,30,385,20,386,37,41,1493,1909,224,1806,44],"tags":[99,1217],"class_list":["post-92567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-driverless-cars","category-elon-musk","category-ethics","category-evolution","category-futurism","category-homo-sapiens","category-human-trajectories","category-information-science","category-law-enforcement","category-machine-learning","category-science","category-skynet","category-supercomputing","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92614,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92567\/revisions\/92614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}