The main point being - if we have no idea why a bunch of cells, which individually have no consciousness at all, collectively become conscious, how can we possibly mimic that artificially?
The key thing is that a self education program like Deep Mind, running simultaneously on massive datacentre processor farms, can teach itself to do stuff (Like Go and chess) given the rules, it is nonetheless an argorithmic system. It is a program that has been coded by humans to do this trick. And admittedly it is very impressive.
But the conscious human mind does not remotely behave algorithmically. And it is that non-algorithmic behaviour that confers intelligence. So Artificial Intelligence, being an algorithm designed by conscious and intelligent humans, is not possible in principle. It is a self educating algorithm with access to massive processing power and huge tranches of memory.
But hey - the guy that was on The Life Scientific sold his company to Microsoft for $800m - so he can call his program what he likes.
The key thing is that a self education program like Deep Mind, running simultaneously on massive datacentre processor farms, can teach itself to do stuff (Like Go and chess) given the rules, it is nonetheless an argorithmic system. It is a program that has been coded by humans to do this trick. And admittedly it is very impressive.
But the conscious human mind does not remotely behave algorithmically. And it is that non-algorithmic behaviour that confers intelligence. So Artificial Intelligence, being an algorithm designed by conscious and intelligent humans, is not possible in principle. It is a self educating algorithm with access to massive processing power and huge tranches of memory.
But hey - the guy that was on The Life Scientific sold his company to Microsoft for $800m - so he can call his program what he likes.
