When artificial intelligence becomes as good as our intelligence what will our purpose be?

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Thank you When Artificial Intelligence becomes as good as Human Intelligence What will our purpose be? Actually The word Artificial Intelligence Assumes certain things Is the usage of the word Perhaps one of the most Defining events In the development of Artificial Intelligence was when When the computer Deep Blue Defeated Garry Kasparov Who was then the chess champion World chess champion Now when that happened that was almost more than a decade ago But when that happened Essentially Kasparov was frustrated There were pictures in the media of him holding his hand In frustration And the makers of Deep Blue Which is the computer he defeated The makers of Deep Blue were elated They were proud But what was the experience of Deep Blue? Deep Blue had no emotions It had no experience It didn’t even understand that I had won a match Basically It had processed According to a database Which was quite exhausting I had processed the chess moves And come up with a particular set of moves By which It had ended up playing better than Kasparov But it did not undergo Any of the emotions Excitement Anticipation Thrill So there is When we talk about Intelligence Here when we use the word Artificial Intelligence We are simply equating Intelligence with Information processing capacity So it is possible That certain machines May get Greater information capacity Than what we use But Consciousness And the experience of emotions That is not That is not Information processing capacity So in The philosophy of science This is called as a hard problem Of consciousness The soft problem of consciousness is Which areas of the brain are connected With which emotions That is Correlated by Neurology quite a bit But the hard problem of consciousness is Why do we have Emotions at all What is the locus of emotions And in fact The more Artificial Intelligence advances The more this difference Gets highlighted Because the computer can do everything The human brain can do The computer can do More than what the human brain can do But the computer can’t experience emotions The computer’s digital architecture Electronic architecture can parallel Or supersede the human brain’s Neural architecture But still the computer doesn’t experience emotions So where is the locus of Experience of emotions That is somewhere different So actually Put it another way All All All computers No matter how Sophisticated, how mind-boggling Sophisticated they may be Essentially what do they do They are simply Changing Patterns in General service 0 to 1, 1 to 0 They may do it at a mind-boggling speed But that’s all that they are doing Now When I Search something on Google You know, after finding Something, I may feel happy And Google may also Hey, you found it, congratulations But Google doesn’t feel any happiness Over there So the point which I am making is No matter how sophisticated Artificial Intelligence becomes It is ultimately Simply data processing And data processing essentially boils down to Changing patterns of 0 to 1 1 to 0, 0 to 1 Very complex, very huge scales And speeds But it’s all that is there to Computer Information Processing And changing states from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 That has nothing to do with Emotions So The locus of emotions Is something different And that is State There are Several Neuroscientists Who have explored in this direction There is Dr. Wilder Penfield He is a Canadian Neurosurgeon, Nobel laureate He studied for Studied the brain for 40 years At the end of it He concluded that The source of consciousness Is extra cerebral That source of consciousness is not in the brain Somewhere outside the brain So when Machine, Artificial Intelligence Becomes better than human intelligence All that it means is It will become better at information processing Than us But what is the purpose? That purpose Is something which We choose The purpose of our existence Depends on our choices That doesn’t depend on whether the machine is more powerful than me or not The machine may be more powerful than me But what I am going to use that machine for What I am going to use my own brain for That is something which we decide So our purpose Ultimately is to find lasting happiness And we find Lasting happiness by connecting with a Lasting source of happiness And that Lasting source of happiness is found through spiritual movement So spirituality Will not be made redundant By any amount of scientific advancement Because ultimately the quest for happiness Will not be fulfilled By impressive leaps of Information processing They may help us to know Where to get certain goods But happiness is not just present in the Finding those goods Happiness is inner state And actually the more artificial intelligence Is advancing The more the difference between Intelligence And consciousness Is becoming more and more clear Intelligence is information processing ability Consciousness is Involves information processing ability But consciousness also involves The experience of emotions Not just of emotions alone Experience of phenomena Experience is something which Is not Not only not reproducible by computer But it is not even present In the digital circuit The capacity is not present The knowledge of how it is produced is not present So we are simply replicating The information processing capacity Not the capacity to experience Consideration Thank you