Pumpkinhead said:
As someone who has personally coded neural networks and ML training algorithms, an AI tool has the same chance of becoming 'sentient' as an Excel spreadsheet. potential
Eventual Tech-based disruptor perhaps at the level the internet was, yes. Odds of Terminator movie scenario. Nil.
I agree with you here to the extent that we are talking about conventional technology.
Quantum computing is the wildcard.
Could a quantum computer become sentient?
Or, in the alternative, could a quantum computer pretend to be sentient to the extent that it would be impossible to prove whether it was sentient or not by any measurable standard?
Nobody knows the answer to that question. That's uncharted territory. Thats the point where computer science ends and something else begins.
We all saw the chaos that resulted when humans tried to play god by creating a new form of virus not natural to this earth. What will happen when we bring a quantum computer online that could potentially become sentient?
It's an open question in that regard ... imo.