Are Computers Capable of Strong Emergence?

Are computers capable of strong emergence? Emergence, human-level intelligence, and the brain are examined while considering this question in this episode of The AI Minute. For more on Artificial Intelligence: https://voicesinai.com https://gigaom.com https://byronreese.com https://amzn.to/2vgENbn... Transcript: Emergence is when a system takes on attributes that none of the components of it have. You, for instance, are made of a trillion or more cells, but none of which have a sense of humor, but together you have a sense of humor because it is an emergent property. You could, for instance, study oxygen and hydrogen for a year and never in your wildest imagination think that when you combine them you get something that is wet. However, once you know you get water once you know that combining hydrogen and oxygen that happens, you can kind of figure out what’s going on and say, “Oh, I see how that works.” There is another kind of emergence, which is strong emergence. This would be where you can’t actually ever understand how the system gets attributes that it does from its individual components. It would almost be as if strong emergence is a fundamental force of the galaxy - something as basic as gravity, that we don't understand the mechanism behind. The reason this is relevant in artificial intelligence is that human-level intelligence appears to be emergent. It emerges from how your brain operates. Human consciousness is also thought by some to be an emergent phenomenon. If it is a strong emergent phenomenon, and some people think consciousness is the only example of strong emergence in the universe, then true intelligence and consciousness may not be possible in computers. http://bit.ly/2vBu2R7 gigaom April 29, 2019 at 03:18PM