Hmm, learning to fly without replicating a specific bird is analogous to the problem of general AI. This discussion thread started with a claimed analogy between chip simulation and mind uploading, which is more the problem of replicating a specific bird. If I claimed to be able to upload your mind, then proceeded to scan or mince your brain, and then showed your relatives a general AI, they would be unimpressed.
Sure. On the other hand if you show manufacturers, engineers or governments a general AI then some major changes happen—and those are the folk who are most likely to cough up for the required R&D.
Possibly those changes might ultimately include the human brain being scanned and emulated—but chronological order seems as though it may be significant here.
Hmm, learning to fly without replicating a specific bird is analogous to the problem of general AI. This discussion thread started with a claimed analogy between chip simulation and mind uploading, which is more the problem of replicating a specific bird. If I claimed to be able to upload your mind, then proceeded to scan or mince your brain, and then showed your relatives a general AI, they would be unimpressed.
Sure. On the other hand if you show manufacturers, engineers or governments a general AI then some major changes happen—and those are the folk who are most likely to cough up for the required R&D.
Possibly those changes might ultimately include the human brain being scanned and emulated—but chronological order seems as though it may be significant here.