Can Artificial Intelligence Be Conscious Essay

Can artificial intelligence be conscious?
The Turing test was a test introduced by Alan Turing (1912-1954) and it involves having a human in one room and an artificial intelligence, otherwise known as a computer, in another and as well as an observer. Turing himself suggested that as long as the observer is unaware whether it’s a human or a computer in either room the computer should be regarded as having human-level intelligence. (Nunez, 2016). But does the “human-level” intelligence mean it should be considered to be conscious? Is it more important to be clever or to be aware of being clever? Is it moral to create a conscious being that just serves our purposes? Aside from the moral implications there are technical implications and parameters

An experience’s colours, smells and sounds are impossible to isolate from one another. Each conscious experience is a unique, never-to-be-repeated event.”(Barras, 2013). In other words; to be able to replicate the conscious mind one needs to somehow implant different sounds, colours, scents and perhaps even artificially created experiences and memories for it to “become” conscious. But how would one program the ever-learning memory of a human? For it to be considered “conscious” it would also have to be able to constantly learn new things and use the newfound knowledge in a human-like manner for example it should able to explain certain phenomena or remember certain events as well as being able to describe

A few examples are “I Robot”, “Matrix” and “Terminator”.
A human remembers things that happened the previous day, unlike a computer that has no memory of what happened in its last session when it was turned on (Because the cache memory of a computer is cleared when you turn it off).
Consciousness has to do with “memory”. A baby that is younger than 5 months only remembers 2 out of 5 images shown to it and make sense out of it while a baby around the age of 3 can remember and make sense of all 5 images.
The consciousness wouldn’t just instantly happen, it would be something that would develop over time in the AI.
As far as morality is concerned it would be counted as an individual and laws would apply to it, so legally you wouldn’t be allowed to force it to do things for you it. If it was too human-like you couldn’t force it into calculating things for you.
Don’t give it a physical “body”(e.g a metallic robot that allows it to move around at will) because it would make it too much like a human.

How has perception of consciousness developed overtime and in recent time with the rapid increase in