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Quantum Mechanics

Dr. Frederico Faggin 

Why are there exaggerated claims about the future of AI?

 

 

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Editor's note:

Dr. Frederico Faggin is one of the heavyweight scientist-inventors of the 20th century. In 1971 he developed the first silicon chip, the microprocessor at the heart of all electronic devices today. He also produced the new touch-sceen technology.

Currently, he is writing, lecturing, and advocating what he feels to be an even more fundamental revolution in science - that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all reality.

 

 

Why are there exaggerated claims about the abilities and future of AI?

Irreducible, pg. 143-144:

The failure to recognize the fundamental [higher-level] contributions [i.e., intuition, creativity, imagination, qualia, self-awareness, comprehension, meaning, and purpose] that consciousness makes to human intelligence is responsible for attributing intelligence to machines. [These are non-algorithmic attributes, derived from consciousness, which innately-inert machines will never possess. It is not possible to reduce these attributes -- for example, the feelings of love one knows for a child -- to electrical signals.]

Computers are only amplifiers of our mechanical mental abilities, while the intelligence attributed to machines is essentially the intelligence of their programmers who translated their [own human] comprehensions into algorithms.

 

 

Editor's last word:

Also see youtube interviews of Dr. Faggin, for example, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Q_W6H_nZk 

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5REKKkKZpY

wherein Dr. Faggin makes comments, such as, "The structure of matter is isomorphic [“equal form”] to the cognitive structure of consciousness, which can reflect itself [in matter]"; our "bodies reflect the accumulated learning of consciousness; matter is the ink with which consciousness writes its own self-knowing."