I've been studying Ai, It's a broad Subject. People are currently frightened at what is basically a smoke and mirror show.
When people wonder how Far A.I has come, I'm here to tell you guys, Right now, The pinnacle of Artificial intelligence is still ANI, Artificial narrow intelligence. It's all scripted, It's not a lot different from a chatbot, No matter how much memory or how many responses it has, It's still running off a script. "Those Scary things" are randomly generated from an algorithm based upon forming a grammatically comprehensible sentence with words that apply to the topic.
It's little more intelligence than if a calculator spoke its numbers and sums, We haven't even made it to AGI, Artificial general intelligence, That would be an intelligence with no uncanny valley, It would be like speaking with a human, It wouldn't have to be Einstein, It would just have to convince people it's really thinking. Some Chatbots have passed the Turing test
Turing test - Wikipedia, but the Turing test is flawed, It's a test designed to see if a machine can fool a person of average intelligence into thinking they are speaking to a person. Even Eugene Goostman
Eugene Goostman - Wikipedia One of the only Bots to ever pass the test was just a cleverly scripted chatbot, Of an eleven-year-old child. including intentional mistakes like misspellings and improper grammar to add to the childlike realism. <---Smoke and mirrors basically
We haven't achieved AGI, Artificial general intelligence, With some scientists believing that General Machine Intelligence will be achieved sometime within the next twenty to five hundred years and That's just the second stage of AI, That we haven't even reached yet, Then there is artificial superintelligence, That's what people worry about, ASI, Is at the very least a hundred years away, That's really wishful thinking.
Now, All that withstanding, WBE, Whole Brain Emulation, IS something entirely different than A.I
Mind uploading - Wikipedia While this may sound like Science fiction we have already emulated the brains of incests inside drones and they do work and function as a hive, People can even pay vast amounts of money and attempt to have their mind uploaded, It's not dangerous, What they do is, they monitor your brainwaves, All five states for 48 hours, During this time they will talk to you get your responses try to figure out your personality, And record those things, What results is an image of your mind functioning Like an ISO file or a rom from a cartridge, then they can Emulate this data inside a machines, It's still not conscious and it's not really you, but it's like a Digital imprint of functions they derive from you with the best techniques and equipment available, Someday, They believe they will be able to record all brain function precisely, creating a perfect emulation of the human mind, and it most certainly looks like they may, None the less, These machines will be Copies. It will not be our own consciousness
The Idea of WBE is tricky. It's trying to tackle the A.I Issue while also granting immortality to those who seek it.
For all our study, for all our Technology, For all our money, The Consciousness is this mysterious thing that we not only don't fully understand, We simply can't even begin to comprehend it. What is consciousness? How does it work? Where is it located in the brain? How do we copy it or make it? Consciousness, It's something philosophical, Yet Real, It's something we can't duplicate Because we simply can't understand what exactly it is :/