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How can you tell if an AI is conscious? Recently, a team of scientists led by the University of Oxford, UK, jointly set some indicators to judge whether AI is conscious, these indicators are derived from several well-known scientific theories of consciousness, and also include hypothetical indicators of higher-order theories, according to the analysis of these indicators, it is not found that any AI system is conscious, but it also shows that there is no obvious technical obstacle to building an AI system that meets these indicators, although there are still many things that humans do not understand about consciousness, but building a standard is a necessary step to judge whether AI is conscious, and this can also help humans understand consciousness。
Scientists say consciousness may be an unintended consequence of complexity, and with the advent of stronger artificial intelligence, there may eventually be consciousness, though perhaps not intentionally by humans.
-- Global artificial intelligence is still in the development stage of perceptual intelligence
According to the degree of development of artificial intelligence, the industry generally divides it into three levels: computational intelligence, perceptual intelligence and cognitive intelligence. Among them, the computational intelligence stage refers to the ability of machines to perform calculations like humans, such as the emergence of neural networks and genetic algorithms, which enable machines to process massive amounts of data more efficiently and quickly; The perceptual intelligence stage refers to the fact that machines can understand our language and understand everything in the world, and speech and visual recognition belong to this category, which can better assist humans to complete tasks efficiently; The cognitive intelligence stage refers to the stage in which machines will be able to think and act actively, fully assisting or even replacing human work.
At present, the global artificial intelligence is still in the development stage of perceptual intelligence.
-- Artificial intelligence commercialization accelerates application scenarios are becoming more and more abundant
Artificial intelligence technology has made a great breakthrough after the rapid development of the past nearly 10 years, with the increasing maturity of artificial intelligence theory and technology, the ability of artificial intelligence scene integration continues to improve, therefore, in recent years, commercial application has become the focus of artificial intelligence technology enterprise layout, Europe, the United States and other developed countries and regions of the artificial intelligence industry commercial landing period earlier, China as a late star, in recent years, under the dual promotion of policy and capital, the process of commercial application of artificial intelligence has accelerated. At present, artificial intelligence technology has been implemented in many fields such as finance, medical care, security, education, transportation, manufacturing, and retail, and the application scenarios are becoming more and more abundant
-- The scale of the artificial intelligence market is growing rapidly
Various products based on artificial intelligence technology have replaced humans in various fields to engage in simple and repetitive physical or mental work, greatly improving production efficiency and quality of life, and also promoting the development and transformation of various industries.
PwC data predicts that the global artificial intelligence market will reach US$2 trillion in 2020, and the market is expected to continue to maintain rapid growth in the next few years, and the global market size will reach US$15.7 trillion by 2030, equivalent to about 104 trillion yuan.
Dan Ives, a well-known Tesla bull analyst at Wedbush Securities, predicts that AI will rise from less than 1% of the global IT budget this year to 8-10% in 2024, representing $1 trillion in spending over the next decade.
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