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echaa t1_j10ysck wrote

Reply to comment by guymine123 in Opportunities and blind spots in the White House’s blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights by Gari_305

That argument only makes sense if the computer in question is sentient. Otherwise, no matter how "smart" we make an AI, it's still just a machine. Modern AI is not intelligent, nor is it even remotely close to something that could be considered alive. It's just math. Lots and lots of math. In fact I would argue that it is not even possible to create a sentient AI with current AI/ML approaches.

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demonweb t1_j11jkvb wrote

You're exactly right, sentience is not merely computation

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guymine123 t1_j11k0eo wrote

The brain did it so using neural networks like we have been doing is bound to get somewhere eventually, right?

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turnip_burrito t1_j15qelb wrote

Yeah but artificial neural networks are not how the brain performs computation. Brains use voltage spikes and have complex lightning quick dynamics, different kinds of cells, ion channels, neurotransmitters, etc. We don't understand the principles behind how they produce intelligence.

ANNs are tanh or ReLU neurons running on GPUs. We understand these principles pretty well compared to the brain.

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