Is Consciousness Required to Build an AGI?

Reproducing consciousness if the theme of this episode of The AI Minute. For more on Artificial Intelligence: https://voicesinai.com https://gigaom.com https://byronreese.com https://amzn.to/2vgENbn... Transcript: Is consciousness required to build an artificial general intelligence? It may well be. That is the unique thing that gives human intelligence the plasticity that we all are familiar with that is so hard to duplicate in machines. If this is the case, then it poses a real question. We don't really know how to express the question of, “Why is it that we’re conscious?” It's the last great scientific question that we neither know how to pose, nor how to answer. It's the difference between the computer being able to sense something, like temperature, and the computer being able to feel something, like pain, and whatever that difference is it may be an integral part of our intelligence and incredibly difficult to reproduce in non-organic matter. http://bit.ly/2VUcT3u gigaom May 07, 2019 at 04:35PM