How to Make Creative Machines and Conscious Network Nodes

Artificial intelligence inventor Stephen Thaler perturbs portions of his software simulated neural networks. The induced stress and noise would cause creativity. His creativity machine already helped design a new toothbrush, musical compositions, info warfare, flexibly learning object recognition systems, and self-developing neural networks. These could someday populate the internet, support transhuman cognition augmentation and appear as an intelligent entity, capable of learning, knowledge-backed reasoning, planning, talking and pursuing goals. Eventually, mind uploads would be carried on free of body by a consciousness simulating artifact. But even if the self-enhancing entities run virtualized, fragmentary personalities of selected individuals, this will differ from human consciousness. Edit from a Four Door Films commercial production, 2006.

The synthetelepa channel autoplaying playlist walks through underdocumented phenomena and effects of non-conventional information transfer to and from the mind, touching conceptual frameworks, research, technologies, techniques and applications.

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Science & Technology

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• simulated-neural-net
• artificial-intelligence
• synthetic-reality
• simulated-consciousness
• mind-upload
• hive-mind

[Houshalter]

Neural networks have no future. They are useful, but its alot more efficient to use a real brain rather than an artificial or simulated one. Heuristic based approaches like eurisko seem more powerful since they can litterally "learn how to learn".

[synthetelepa]

@Houshalter

This recursive heuristics computationalism seems to realize sort of self-adapting algorithmata. But one current popular connectionalist view is also that strong ai would have to evolve gradually. Thaler devises an example of a next gen perceptron-using nn which does just that + more. Another current emerging nn-type is the virtual neurocomp mentioned below in the very 1st comment.

[glivick]

There isn't the slightest hint that computer systems will ever "think," or obtain "consciousness." Search the peer reviewed scientific literature, and one will find no research making such claims.

This is kind of fun to watch anyway, but the conclusions claimed are totally baseless.

[synthetelepa]

In the playlists, peer-review oriented scientists argue for at least conscious artifact components: D.C. Dennett, G. Edelman, R. Kurzweil, R. Brooks, M. Kaku, J. Sarfatti. Also consider the Blue Brain project, or agiri. org, singinst. org, British Telecom consultant Ian Pearson, NIST engineer James S. Albus, Luc Steels of AI lab Brussels, Dejan Rakoviç of University of Belgrade, Norman D. Livergood, neurocomputer eng. V.D. Tsygankov. Only a few examples from the unclassified public debate.

[chrirus2006]

That's what human brains do too. Our brains are, for the time being, only more complex than human-made computers. Given time and the ability to facilitate computers with sufficient sophistication in terms of data input sensors, data storage space, and basic data analysis algorithms, computers should be able to develop, not only crude intelligence, but also the basics of consciousness.

[tibbledotnet]

Artificial intelligence is not possible in this way. We can not re-create life, and it is arrogant to think that we can emulate or re-produce it by playing god with some transistors. The only form of electronic conciousness that will exist is the one that is emerging right now on the internet... in the form of the global conciousness. Open your eyes to see it and become a part of the world to come.

[VinVilhjalmsson]

If these neural networks could be made from a donors own neural stem cells. Could they be integrated with a human brain ?

[timonix2]

@Houshalter a normal brain has it's limitations as well. neural network might actually surpass it in the future.

[BobbynEdward]

All life on Earth collaborated to form higher orders of intelligence; an unbroken line to our primordial beginnings. "Life cannot be contained, it must burst forth". Consciousness is the same. It cannot be contained (even within a box of human understanding). We look at the wondrous plants and animals of this planet, and know them as myriad expressions of an elemental happening. Maybe consciousness is also a singular event; one that human being, "enhanced", planetary, and cosmic are all joined.

[synthetelepa]

It would renew, replicate, sustain, adapt, learn, survive, recognize, decide, create, manage emotions/optional, auto-form collective behavior to solve tasks (up to here lab tested), reflect, ask new questions, wonder, develop a collective conscious. 1st rules could describe building blocks, relationships, objective functions, etc. Artificial consciousness will differ from human which includes qualitative and subjective experience, intentionality, subconscious, intuition, premonition, empathy.