I think that those reports are bullshit. No way that a machine can think before they make quantum computers and all that crap, maybe never.
Thinking is just making decisions based on learned things or situations. Some companies have been using computers to make small level decisions for years now. Creative thought may be years away but that's still just improving on what has been learned.
I would not call it thinking. You could look up the chinese room thought experiment, it is very interesting.
I've run across that experiment while studying the the "hard problem of consciousness". From what I remember it asserts that computers are not capable of thinking as they are just following instructions. It may look like thinking from the outside, but on the inside it's just following a set of instructions with no real understanding of what it's doing.
The way it works is the computer has access to a massive image library with tags for what is in the picture. You give it a phrase and it interprets the phrase and tries to create an image with those things in it. Then it compares that picture to other pictures in the database and rates how similar it is. It does this hundreds of times with each iteration getting closer and closer until it reaches the number of iterations the program has specified. Then the image is output. So it's not art in the sense that a computer "thought" of the art. It just compares what it creates to a library of images and picks the highest "score" for similarity.
Oh, please, don't give them any ideas. The garbage that's out there is bad enough already:
Right. They can't. They have no soul, ergo they're incapable of critical thinking.
I see it just as another tool at my disposal to create images.Oh, please, don't give them any ideas. The garbage that's out there is bad enough already:
Right. They can't. They have no soul, ergo they're incapable of critical thinking.
If-then-else is not thinking.
I'm sure there's nothing to be concerned about.In my eyes, there's very little that AI can accomplish that is actually of benefit. Many science fiction films/shows over the years (far too many to list here) have consistently demonstrated the deleterious effects on the planet and all its lifeforms (the living ones, not the ones that claim to be sentient) once AI becomes unrestrained. Sure, computer generated art might seem innocuous enough, but give the AI a millimeter, and it'll take a light year. Before you know it...well, just look at thehumansBorg around us these days...it's just a sea of smartphones, each one with a middleman in varying degrees of assimilation.
Take that, Orwell!
