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Jay Richards: Is artificial intelligence budding consciousness or just statistical processing?

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Jay Wesley Richards
Jay Wesley Richards

From Jay Richards at ENST:

On a new episode of ID the Future, Jay Richards talks with host Mike Keas about a recent Atlantic article from former National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger on “How the Enlightenment Ends” with the rise of artificial intelligence.

Richards … explains that AI is about statistical processing, not budding consciousness; and the ethical concerns it raises are both important yet in some ways not so new. More.

Podcast:

The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines by [Richards, Jay W.]Jay Richards is the author of a forthcoming book (June 19), The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines.

In other news, Chicken Little is said to be having a nervous breakdown over his advance copy.  It is wrecking the  a-shock-alypse industry.

See also: Henry Kissinger: The End of the Enlightenment dawns, due to artificial intelligence

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