{"id":129880,"date":"2024-09-14T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=129880"},"modified":"2024-09-17T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:45:54","slug":"will-ai-have-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/will-ai-have-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Will AI Have Consciousness? Mo Gawdat Explores the Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Will AI have consciousness in the future? How would it compare to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/human-consciousness\/\">human consciousness<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mo Gawdat, author of <em>Scary Smart<\/em>, dives into the fascinating realm of AI consciousness. He predicts that, as AI systems advance, they&#8217;ll gain more than just superintelligence\u2014they might develop awareness of their environment and themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on for a thought-provoking exploration of AI&#8217;s potential for consciousness and what it could mean for our future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ai-consciousness\">AI Consciousness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Will AI have consciousness someday? Gawdat predicts that, as AI progresses and becomes more advanced in the information it can process and the problems it can solve, it will gain more than just superintelligence. He predicts AI will gain other qualities of intelligent minds, including consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To have consciousness, a being has to do two things: It must become aware of its environment, and it must become aware of itself<\/strong>, according to Gawdat. He explains that AI systems are already more adept than we are at sensing their environments. Think about your smartphone: Using the cameras and sensors built into the device, AI can already detect many things that happen in your world but escape your attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Experts agree that AI consciousness would have multiple components. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Will-Computers-Revolt-Artificial-Intelligence\/dp\/1732687269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Will Computers Revolt?<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>author Charles J. Simon writes that first, AI would need the ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/devm.io\/machine-learning\/chatgpt-agi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">create an internal model<\/a> or mental picture of its world, with itself at the center. It would also need an idea of time to predict what might happen if it takes a specific action. Plus, it would need something like an imagination to consider multiple actions and their likely consequences. Some experts contend AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/10\/16\/1081149\/ai-consciousness-conundrum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can\u2019t gain consciousness<\/a> and won\u2019t experience the world from its own perspective. But others think <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6266923\/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we simply can\u2019t determine<\/a> whether AI is aware of itself or gains consciousness because so much of what it does is incomprehensible to us.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gawdat also states that <strong>AI will undoubtedly have an awareness of itself and its place in the world<\/strong>. He expects this awareness to surpass what we\u2019re capable of because AI will rely on computer hardware and won\u2019t be constrained by the biological limitations of our senses and brains. That means that, if its hardware is advanced enough, it can see and hear everything in its environment without the limits of what our eyes and ears can do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: To imagine how AI\u2019s awareness differs from ours, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/comment\/its-time-to-accept-ai-will-never-think-like-a-human-and-thats-okay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">look at animals<\/a>. Dogs can do many things we can\u2019t, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/ice-age-siberian-hunters-may-have-domesticated-dogs-23000-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">track prey<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/innovation\/the-education-of-a-bomb-dog-4945104\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detect explosives<\/a>. But they can\u2019t do many things we can, like see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-colors-do-dogs-see\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a full range of colors<\/a> or distinguish things <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/article\/150111-animals-dogs-television-pets-science-tv-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">happening on TV<\/a> from real life. In the same way, AI makes mistakes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/comment\/its-time-to-accept-ai-will-never-think-like-a-human-and-thats-okay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seem absurd to us<\/a>, but that\u2019s because it perceives the world differently, Janelle Shane writes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/janelle-shane\/you-look-like-a-thing-and-i-love-you\/9780316525237\/?lens=voracious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>You Look Like a Thing and I Love You<\/em><\/a>. AI <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/magazines\/panache\/why-computers-lack-the-one-thing-humans-take-for-granted-common-sense\/articleshow\/85427578.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doesn\u2019t have common sense<\/a> or a sense of physics, and Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis note in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/rebooting-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Rebooting AI<\/em><\/a> that it can\u2019t grasp how real-world objects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/rebooting-ai#problems-with-awareness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relate to each other<\/a>. So, will AI models have a <em>better<\/em> awareness of themselves or their world than we do? There\u2019s not a simple yes or no answer.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will AI have consciousness in the future? How would it compare to human consciousness? Mo Gawdat, author of Scary Smart, dives into the fascinating realm of AI consciousness. He predicts that, as AI systems advance, they&#8217;ll gain more than just superintelligence\u2014they might develop awareness of their environment and themselves. Read on for a thought-provoking exploration of AI&#8217;s potential for consciousness and what it could mean for our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":129891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[1584],"class_list":["post-129880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-scary-smart","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will AI Have Consciousness? 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