Loading ...Modeling Conciousness: what do we do with AI?
23 June 2008We’ve heard that AI will be the future and change our lives. We’ve seen movies where robots have human personalities and can interact with us as interact with each other. In order to achieve these “AI use cases” you must first understand what it means to be human and more specifically what mimicking our behavior means.
- Communication: Humans have extensive ways to communicate (verbal, written language, physical expressions)
- Emotions: Humans like other animals have some emotions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion) (fear, anger, love, rage)
- Feelings: Humans have Feeling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeling)
- Mental State: Human minds have various states (certainty, confusion)
- Beliefs and Principles: Humans typically have some baseline beliefs and principles (don’t kill, etc..)
- Social Intelligence: Humans have social intelligence
- Perception/Awareness: Humans have awareness to their own existence
- Creative Abilities: (Ability to improvise)
- Motives
Understanding these components can help us better focus particular traits for specific tasks.
Therapy: Some people have a difficult time interacting with others due to specific disorders or trauma’s they’ve experienced. In the future AI ( in robots) likely will become a part of our lives. We already have robots in our homes, like the Roomba Vacuum cleaner which we’ve accepted as normal. We know that certain personality types clash with each other and certain mental disorders amplify these frictions to the point where one personality types may avoid another. Picture robots that can communicate with us and for the purpose of therapy mimic certain human personality types. Say you’re a right winged republican and have anger issues with left leaning hippies, communicating with a artificial ‘hippie’ personality can allow you to explore frustrations and reactions to those frustrations with no accountability or consequences.
Policy Making: Policies are sets of rules defined for a particular topic. Policies when created are influenced by the perceptions, experiences, and motives. Creating software that can be provided with data and create policies for a given topic without bias or personal motives likely will be something we’ll consider normal. Anyone know of any research here?
You get the idea. One thing I haven’t been able to find is a model of the human mind/classification of the traits that make up consciousness. Does such a thing exist?
2 Responses to “Modeling Conciousness: what do we do with AI?”
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Psychology?
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Wikipedia states psychology as “Psychology is an academic and applied discipline involving the analytic and scientific study of mental processes and behavior”.
In order for us to create intelligent code we must first understand our own thought processes.
If you’ve ever written code you need to have formalized requirements to provide purpose to the code being written as well as a desired outcome. If you’re writing *AI* you’re writing artificial mental processes or mimicked behaviors.