John McCarthy, along with Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in a proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1955. The conference, held in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College, is considered the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.
McCarthy, who was then a young Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, organized the group to clarify and develop ideas about thinking machines. The proposal stated that the conference aimed to examine “the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it”.
John McCarthy was quoted as saying:
Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence an in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.
That means that AI in a machine can solve the same problems that humans can with their natural intelligence.
McCarthy and the others in 1955 came up with 7 aspects of AI.
- Simulating higher functions of the human brain.
- Programing a computer to use general language.
- Arranging hypothetical neurons in a manner so that they an form concepts.
- A way to determine and measure problem complexity.
- Self-improvement.
- Abstraction: Defined as the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
- Randomness and creativity.
The Dartmouth research proposal (PDF) lists these 7 aspects, and gives explanations on page 2. If these aspects are achieved does that make AI sentient? After 70 years since these aspects were formulated have machines become sentient?
The following is the dictionary definition of the word “sentient” (/ˈsɛn.ʃənt/)
adjective
- Conscious or self-aware.
- Experiencing sensation, thinking, thought, or feeling.
- Possessing human-like knowledge and intelligence.
noun
- Lifeform with the capability to feel sensation, such as pain.
Many aspects have been achieved with supercomputers, machine learning, and large language models. But sentient beings are lifeforms which feel pain. It is not about raw computational power but about intuition, abstract thought, and even irrational thought.
Of course there is a tautology in the meaning of the “noun” above. What is a lifeform? It feels pain. So how does a machine feel pain? If it does, is it a lifeform?
McCarthy’s conjecture is mechanistic in nature. That man can develop intelligence that “can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it”.
But what if that gap between rote mechanistic information retrieval and manipulation is infinitely wide because true sentient intelligence is not a product of the number of transistors or the stored information content? But that intelligence is divinely created? It is not the product of raw neurons but the coded information in the electrical activity in the collection of neurons in the brain. It is not an emergent property of the trillions of neurons but something else completely.
True sentient thought can only come from the Creator.
6 And he said to me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Revelation 21:6 AKJV
Jesus the Creator, the eternal One gives life. He was known as Melchisedec, king of Salem, meaning King of peace, priest of the most high God,
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like to the Son of God; stays a priest continually.
Hebrews 7:3 AKJV
The Creator exists apart form any machinery.
Sentient life can never come from the hardware, but only from the Life-giver.
2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:2-5 AKJV
The Lord God offers true life, not a demon filled life, which is all anyone has before they trust in Him.
AI machines lie! They often provide wrong answers! They are only the product of the corrupted minds of man.
You want to find sentient life? Look to the Creator of all things! AI is the false god of this world who can never satisfy!
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