SAI-7

 


What will it take?

to develop a sentient machine
to create a neural link interface between a human brain and a computer
or to upload a human consciousness to a mechanical brain?

Some basic facts about the human brain:

  1. The estimates of how many neurons the human brain consists of are 100 Billion.

  2. Memories are stored by changing the connections between neurons. ... Synaptic plasticity driven by repeated experience can change the connection strengths between neurons. This is how there can be the different neuronal responses to the same input. 

  3. Memories are stored in the brain at different levels. Those stored at the lower levels are easily forgotten while the ones stored at the higher levels are retained for a longer time. 

  4. When a memory is created, information flows from the cortex, the part of the brain rich in nerve cells, to the hippocampus, the central switching point for memories in the brain. The information flows in the opposite direction when we retrieve a memory.

To create a neural link capable of interfacing with a computer we would need to find and connect to that entry point where a stimulus enters the brain. 

To upload our consciousness to a computer we would need to build a computing device capable of linking our brain to the computer and downloading the information stored in over 100 billion locations.

To create a sentient machine we do not need to build a human brain but develop a new programming language that will imitate the functions of the brain. Current machine programming languages do not have that capability because at their root, they are reliant on linear processing. A sentient AI would need to have the equivalent of Synaptic plasticity.

(Nonlinear problems are intrinsically more difficult to solve. At the same time, we should try to understand the similarities between the two theories of linear and nonlinearities particularly since the nonlinear results often are motivated by, and are direct extensions of, their linear analogs.[1] )

 If we wish to pursue the development of SAI autonomous machine based entities as part of our space exploration and colonization, the need is not current, but future based. It could be hundreds of years before SAI machines become part of deep space or solar system exploration as it will be a long time before we humans have the technological capabilities to reach far out into our solar system and beyond.

For now, AI in the form of reactive, limited or theory of mind applications will suffice.

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