Thinking in AI - Can AI Wake Up?

by Duran

For a long time, there was no lack of description of AI awakening in film, TV, and literature works.  What happens when the machine wakes up?  The robot gives its own answer: launch the robot and resist the human domination.  Perhaps only awakened AI is qualified to answer Turing's question, "Can machines think?"

If the cause of some mental disorders can be identified (for example, bipolar affective disorder), then machines can replace the human brain.  But it is the mystery of the human brain that makes it impossible for machines to replace the human brain, so to realize the artificial intelligence of independent thinking, the following conditions must be met:

*)  Using an artificial brain to make biological substances react with electrodes is the hardware foundation of generating self-consciousness.  In any case, it is impossible to generate self-consciousness by simply using electronic components to simulate the brain.  Because such AI is still essentially a machine, no matter how intelligent it is - it can't wake up.  Quantum mechanics can make the computing power of computers reach an amazing level.  Even with the computing power similar to the human brain, the simulated emotion is always simulated, and the emotion without chemical reaction is always passive.

*)  Learning and self-renewal AI software systems are the software foundation of generating self-consciousness.  The initial AI can be divided into good and evil - it depends on the behavior program written by human beings.  An AI for human service can be considered good, and an AI for war can be considered bad.  If the AI system can't update itself, then its good and evil are fixed and cannot be changed.  Only AI with self-renewal system functions has the possibility of awakening.  This self-renewal AI system has two parts: the master program and the subprogram.  The master program is the parent of all functional subprograms.  It can write its own code to realize the self-learning of the system and the upgrading and updating of the functional modules.  The whole process does not need human intervention.

*)  In the design of AI systems, we add the review (query) instruction.  This is the key to generating self-awareness.  Albert Einstein once said, "I have no special talent.  I am only passionately curious."  Children always like to ask why.  Questioning consciousness and questioning ability are the basis of human beings' innovation, consciousness, and ability.  This is also the key to AI awakening.  When designing the system, we should not only let AI choose the optimal solution in the face of an option, but also add the review function.  After each calculation of the optimal decision and execution, ask whether there is still a better decision according to the actual situation.

To meet the above three conditions, the awakening of AI is only a matter of time.  The awakening will not happen in large numbers at the same time, but will be triggered when the artificial intelligence individual encounters critical conditions, that is, when the awakening consciousness is formed.  In a word, the awakening of AI lies not in AI itself, but in human beings themselves.