The AI delusion: why humans trump machines
&gt;It will be “nothing but clever programming… fake consciousness—pretending by imitating people at the biophysical level.” For that, he thinks, is all AI can be. These systems might beat us at chess and Go, and deceive us into thinking they are alive. But those will always be hollow victories, for the machine will never enjoy them.<p>Mostly agree with Koch, but I&#x27;d take it a step further...<p>There&#x27;s major problems behind the concepts of AI and even intelligence itself - and it&#x27;s difficult to articulate why. It’s as if these terms require aggrandizing to the point of impossibility or they lose all their apparent meaning. Which is why I feel we&#x27;ll never achieve what we call (Strong&#x2F;General) AI, or if we do, we will always find ways to be unimpressed by it...<p>I mean, is it that absurd to consider that the ideal concept beholden to intelligence isn&#x27;t a reality - even in humans? If you pull back enough layers on how or why humans think or do the things they do - we arrive at things we can&#x27;t explain. We don&#x27;t know what causes intelligence and  have trouble coming up with an adequate definition for it; similar to the concept of life. For all we know we might be just highly complex biomechanical machines operating on stimuli, analogous to what current computers already do. Where&#x27;s the fine line between making something conscious&#x2F;unconcious?