Non-Fiction Audiobook
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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One piece of good news is that at least for the next few decades, we won't have to deal with the full blown science fiction nightmare of AI gaining consciousness and deciding to enslave or wipe out humanity. We will increasingly rely on algorithms to make decisions for us, but it is unlikely that the algorithms will start to consciously manipulate us. They won't have any consciousness. Science fiction tends to confuse intelligence with consciousness and assume that in order to match or surpass human intelligence, computers will have to develop consciousness. The basic plot of almost all movies and novels about AI revolves around the magical moment when a computer or a robot gains consciousness. Once that happens, either the human hero falls in love with robot or the robot tries to kill all the humans. Sometimes both things happen simultaneously. But in reality there is no reason to assume that artificial intelligence will gain consciousness because intelligence and consciousness are very different things. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love and anger. We tend to confuse the two because in humans and other mammals, intelligence goes hand in hand with consciousness. Mammals solve problems by feeling things. Computers, however, solve problems in a very different way.