Wake Up Call Letter to Accelerate Research in the Field of Consciousness Science(amcs-community.org) |
Wake Up Call Letter to Accelerate Research in the Field of Consciousness Science(amcs-community.org) |
The good news is that this capability can be very useful in spotting patterns in large amounts of seemingly random data. But it would be a big mistake to assume that this indicates anything more than dumb search and retrieval.
Look, I think there should be funding for consciousness science. I don't think it should be a panic, I don't think it should be tied to AI, or AGI, I don't think anyone who believes in "the turing test" as some magic arbiter should be involved.
But it feels to me like the problem of what consciousness is, is a multi-disciplinary question which will pay back in improvements to anasthesiology, mental health prescribing, post traumatic injury recovery, and maybe, very thin maybe, to AI and modelling of human decision making.
BTW I am also pretty sure it has been an ongoing activity of research with funding for decades. Like Norbert Weiner years ago.
I wonder what kinds of things they're including in this statement.