Consciousness; A review of AI does not mention consciousness (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 09, 2015, 18:35 (3145 days ago) @ David Turell

Increasing artificial intelligence is a given:-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-artificial-intelligence-surpass-our-own/?WT.mc_id=SA_MB_20150909-"Obscured by this razzle-dazzle progress is how far away we remain from “strong” or “general” AI, comparable to the intelligence of the proverbial man or woman in the street who can navigate a car, hurtle on skis down a mountain slope, carry on a conversation about pretty much any topic—often in two or more languages. That same ordinary individual might also play a variety of games, serve on a jury and plan for retirement decades in the future. Hampering our ability to design general AI is the embarrassing fact that we don't understand what we mean by “intelligence.” This lack of knowledge makes any predictions of when we will achieve strong AI fraught with uncertainty. Still, it may not be so far away. For the record, most experts believe that strong machine intelligence will arrive before the century is over, assuming current trends continue."