Having an employee who’s an expert in AI has its advantages. Asking him about emergent AI prompted much laughter, though.
Confirming the suspicions I had, we are so far from the type of artificial intelligence we see in the movies, it’s unreal … and laughable.
We understand so little about the brain — almost any brain — that creating AI is a bit fanciful.
But then there’s also the question of self-awareness and consciousness, neither of which are synonymous with the other, and both are poorly understood.
And to confuse things further, there is no agreed definition of what life is. You’d think it’d be obvious, but it is a very contentious subject.
I suppose it’s unfair to ask if the idea I’ve had is possible or feasible for that matter, so it’s a question of whether it’s viable.
But, as a writer of science fiction, I’m not going to allow a few niggling facts to get in the way of a good idea.
So far, the extent of the idea I’ve been cultivating is at least viable.
