There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a conscious experience. We don't even have the beginnings of a theory whose conclusion would be "such a system is conscious. Stuart J. Russell More Quotes by Stuart J. Russell More Quotes From Stuart J. Russell Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough. Stuart J. Russell google example simple Most of the AI goes into figuring which are the important pages you want. And to some extent what your query means, and what you're likely to be after based on your previous behavior and other information it collects about you. Stuart J. Russell important want mean Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities. Stuart J. Russell smart writing opportunity You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that they give you; they essentially index the pages based on the words that you're searching, and then they intersect that with the words in your query, and they use some tricks to figure out which pages are more important than others. But they don't understand anything. Stuart J. Russell google important giving If you had a system that could read all the pages and understand the context, instead of just throwing back 26 million pages to answer your query, it could actually answer the question. You could ask a real question and get an answer as if you were talking to a person who read all those millions and billions of pages, understood them, and synthesized all that information. Stuart J. Russell real answers talking It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational. Stuart J. Russell information race use Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence. Stuart J. Russell results humans civilization I expect that people are going to feel differently about that once they're aware that AI systems can watch through a camera and can, in some sense, understand what it's seeing. Stuart J. Russell cameras watches people
