If you believe the brain is nothing more than the sum of its parts, is it fair to say we can one day recreate not just artificial intelligence but artificial consciousness? We would need to define consciousness first in order to answer that question. But I am very much in camp. Yes, we are just a sum of all of our parts. In theory, you should be able to replicate the parts that we have. We just have no idea how to do that right now. And so that some of the parts thing, there are things that come together and become more than the Sum of the Parts. That's an emergent phenomenon only exists in the group because one bird cannot flock,. That makes
Are robots going to take over? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson & comic co-host Negin Farsad explore our future with artificial intelligence by looking at our past with animals with robot ethicist and author of A New Breed, Dr. Kate Darling.
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