In order to set on limits on the kinds of things an AI will do, you need to understand how it works.
How is that impossible with a replicated brain architecture? We can't make one if we don't know how it works.
If you have the right tools, you can make a brain without understanding it. Reproductive system can make brains. Whole brain emulation doesn't require understanding of brain architecture, only the dynamics of its lowest-level components.
You "know" how pi works, and how to set up a program that computes it, but you don't know what its quandrillionth digit is.
Whole brain emulation doesn't require understanding of brain architecture, only the dynamics of its lowest-level components.
I fear the same philosophical reasoning may be applied to model neural architecture as is currently being used for econometric forecasting. Even the most complex economic models cannot account for significant exogenous variables.
For the record I think we can get to WBE, however I think a premature launch would be terrible. Based on the lack of research into developmental AI (much work notably done by a friend - Dr. Frank Guerin at...
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