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  Can conscious machines overtake humans?

 

Before we dive into the word conscious machines, we shall have to look into the exact nature of the definition of conscious human. Every field has defined it in its way. Science says about humans,` those who get the maximum of their surrounding source by utilizing the intelligence and accomplish the task or goal.

 

 

Artificial Intelligence.

 

It has become the base of the revolution of modern technology. The goal behind it was the same as today, to aid humans in accomplishing their goals more efficiently. But since artificial intelligence has crossed the threshold of the world, things are changing more rapidly. Everything or say every task is just a one-touch away from us. It would sound quite astonishing to someone who accidentally falls into this modern century from the 12th century. But if we talk about the person of this era, some questions would surely bubble up at the surface of the mind. Can a silicon chip take the place of human minds? Is this global village turning into the global robotic world?

 

 

 

Controversy.

 

Instead of casting the idea off the mind as ordinary scientists think, experiment, analyze, and conclude. The discussion of can conscious machines overtake humans is quite controversial. Consciousness is the blend of two things, 1. awareness of existence. 2. acknowledgment of knowing and not knowing. Though experts disagree, most of them accept the idea of the implementation of artificial intelligence in machines to make them conscious. 

Some robots and machines have passed some kinds of self-conscious tests (Bringsjord et al., 2015)

The notion of conscious machines got nurtured by science fiction writers for ages. (Good, 1965)  

Moreover, to some extent, robotics has surpassed human capabilities. A thought-provoking example is the recent report of AlphaGo zero which can learn without human intervention while working at a super-human level (Silver et al., 2017). Thus, advances in artificial intelligence have somehow convinced the idea that conscious machines can overtake humans in the coming era.

 

Reciprocation of human characteristics.

 

Picture the world of conscious machines.

 

Machines would never get tired of working but can also face a breakdown, not like humans when the anxiety attacks right in the center of the crowd when demons hug a man from behind. The machines might have a charging problem or circuit breakage. But the question here is, will science win in creating the perfect aura on this globe? In a world where no pair of eyes left staring at the moon in the midnight hours, no smile would be for the delicate flower or the heart drowsy in dreams and thoughts under the oak tree by the lakeside. 

Human is the child of the cosmos. Fragments of emotions are there in the deep layers of their bones.

To reciprocate all human characteristics is impossible. Can computers ever know how one inhales life with euphoria, melancholy, tangled though, and the blank canvas with new paintbrush every day?

 

Turing was the first scientist who suggested the test based on simple routine questions and recorded the response of both machines and humans. But the other scientists were more willing to take the morality-based test because computers can achieve human characteristics like autonomy or reproduction only if we try to think out of the box of biology.

So what is left behind? Morality. Morality is something that dwells in humans based upon past experiences, likeliness, and deep introspection about everything. Or you can call it a distinctive nature of someone.

 

In a nutshell, human intelligence is far more complicated than we think. Let us take an example, which person is more intelligent? Someone who would win the argument at the expense of the relationship or the one who would win the talk and keeps the relationship sound. So here we are with the extended version of intelligence. 

Conclusion.

 

The question arises in the mind if it would ever occur, will these machines act, respond and work like human beings? The quality of sensing the fragrance of cookies just by entering the home, the fear of darkness, the pain when stung by a wasp accidentally, the fastness of time while doing exams, and the slow passage of glass hour when boredom prevails. The embarrassment of cracking the wrong joke in public. Will machines ever experience that?