人工意识是可以实现的吗?来自人脑的启示
Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
AI总结:
本文从进化角度以人脑为参考模型,分析了发展人工意识所需的脑结构与功能特征,建议AI从中汲取灵感,并呼吁在讨论人工意识时保持谨慎,明确区分其与人类意识的异同。
摘要:
我们从进化角度分析了发展人工意识的问题,以人脑的进化及其与意识的关系作为参考模型。这种分析揭示了人脑的几个结构和功能特征,这些特征似乎是实现类人复杂意识体验的关键,当前人工智能(AI)研究在尝试开发具有意识处理能力的系统时应将其纳入考量。我们认为,即使由于内在(结构和架构)和外在(与当前科学技术知识阶段相关)原因,AI在模拟人类意识方面的能力有限,但从使意识处理成为可能或对其进行调节的大脑特征中汲取灵感,是迈向发展意识AI的潜在有前景的策略。此外,理论上AI研究有可能发展出与人类在质上不同的部分或潜在的替代意识形式,且视视角而定,其复杂程度可能更高或更低。因此,我们建议在谈论人工意识时保持受神经科学启发的谨慎态度:由于对人类和AI使用相同的“意识”一词会产生歧义并可能产生误导,我们建议明确指出AI意识处理与完整人类意识体验之间有何共同点和差异。
英文摘要:
We here analyse the question of developing artificial consciousness from an evolutionary perspective, taking the evolution of the human brain and its relation with consciousness as a reference model. This kind of analysis reveals several structural and functional features of the human brain that appear to be key for reaching human-like complex conscious experience and that current research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) should take into account in its attempt to develop systems capable of conscious processing. We argue that, even if AI is limited in its ability to emulate human consciousness for both intrinsic (structural and architectural) and extrinsic (related to the current stage of scientific and technological knowledge) reasons, taking inspiration from those characteristics of the brain that make conscious processing possible and/or modulate it, is a potentially promising strategy towards developing conscious AI. Also, it is theoretically possible that AI research can develop partial or potentially alternative forms of consciousness that is qualitatively different from the human, and that may be either more or less sophisticated depending on the perspectives. Therefore, we recommend neuroscience-inspired caution in talking about artificial consciousness: since the use of the same word consciousness for humans and AI becomes ambiguous and potentially misleading, we propose to clearly specify what is common and what differs in AI conscious processing from full human conscious experience.
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