I don't believe that computers will become conscious.

Conscious beings weren't assembled from manmade parts strewn together from factories around the world. We were created organically in our mother's womb.

An automatic sweeper, for example, can't look at a floor, recognize that it's dirty and needs to be cleaned, and then clean it. It just rolls around and sucks because we told it to. And even if we come out with ones that only go to work when the floor is dirty, it STILL didn't determine that by itself. It's not conscious.

We can make machines more intelligent but intelligence is not consciousness.

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DDonde · 31-35, M

We can make them in theory as intelligent as a conscious being, but we can't make them conscious. No innovation in computing or in any algorithm will make it conscious if it's missing the hardware for it.

SinlessOnslaught · M

@DDonde Yep. They'll only do what we tell them to do. They'll never "take over".

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SinlessOnslaught We can create learning algorithms where the outcome becomes unpredictable. But in order for an AI to take over we would have to hand over a lot to an AI algorithm which would be kind of stupid of us. And at no point would it be sentient, even though it's "learning".

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@SinlessOnslaught

They'll only do what we tell them to do.

Which we did you have in mind? You can bet it won't include thee and me.