AI Through the Dog’s Eye
Why artificial intelligence will be intelligent but never truly conscious
Dog owners will instantly relate to the experience that I’m about to share. It’s golden hour, sunlight streams through your window and cloaks your dog in a majestic warm glow. She looks up at you in your chair, the warm tingle of your glass of wine chases away the little gremlins that attract your attention, and you’re sitting in silence, staring at each other and you get the distinct feeling that you’ve known her before in some ancient time. There’s a wisdom and presence in her eyes that you cannot explain but you nonetheless deeply understand, and the moment you see it, you realize how little you know about the universe and more so, that you know absolutely nothing about the very thing that connects you two – consciousness. But you don’t feel too bad, for you know that science is at a loss to explain what happened moments ago, but it tries to anyway, and in a game of theoretical chicanery, offers up a physical answer to a metaphysical question.