{"id":98208,"date":"2019-11-06T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/opinion-its-arrogant-to-assume-humans-will-never-imbue-ai-with-consciousness"},"modified":"2019-11-06T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:23:10","slug":"opinion-its-arrogant-to-assume-humans-will-never-imbue-ai-with-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/opinion-its-arrogant-to-assume-humans-will-never-imbue-ai-with-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: It\u2019s arrogant to assume humans will never imbue AI with consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opinion-its-arrogant-to-assume-humans-will-never-imbue-ai-with-consciousness3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Cogito, ergo sum,<\/i>\u201d Rene Descartes. Translation: \u201cI think, therefore I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What makes us, us? How is it that we\u2019re able to look at a tree and see beauty, hear a song and feel moved, or take comfort in the smell of rain or the taste of coffee? How do we know we still exist when we close our eyes and lie in silence? To date, science doesn\u2019t have an answer to those questions.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it doesn\u2019t even have a unified theory. And that\u2019s because we can\u2019t simulate <i>consciousness<\/i>. All we can do is try to reverse-engineer it by studying living beings. Artificial intelligence, coupled with quantum computing, could solve this problem and provide the breakthrough insight scientists need to unravel the mysteries of <i>consciousness<\/i>. But first we need to take the solution seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCogito, ergo sum,\u201d Rene Descartes. Translation: \u201cI think, therefore I am.\u201d What makes us, us? How is it that we\u2019re able to look at a tree and see beauty, hear a song and feel moved, or take comfort in the smell of rain or the taste of coffee? How do we know we still exist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98208","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}