Journal #7

11/20/2019

If a collective consciousness (such as prayer) can be turned-in to by many, then could AI also tune to this collective frequency, analyze it, and act on it? And if enough collective consciousness is gained by the AI, is this then not learning outside of programming? And THEN, does this mean the AI can begin to create its own will?

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Adam Jimenez

11/24/2019 11:52:39 am

I believe prayer is another form of faith, I don’t think a computer has the understanding of believing in something such as a holy person. Computers go by facts and science, prayers in now way related to science. It is unconceivable that computers is far future will be able to comprehend what drives humans to pray maybe then computers will go outside their programming to understand but I still don’t think computers will come close to prayers. I’m am not sure if there is a computer out that can do task on its own without programing so if scientist were able to program free will maybe then the computer can choose his path instead of following orders. If computers are anything like humans and more they will definitely be able to understand prayer but I don’t think it will be able to have its own free will, computers still need program.

Lusine Ohanyan

11/24/2019 04:31:39 pm

Prayer is something humans do to either thank their God or wish for something. Can robots really think for themselves wheter there is a God and if there is who is that god for them. Robots don't think that far because prayer has a lot to do with emotion. I completely agree that robots can't have real emotions, it may be programmed to maybe smile or make a sad face in responce to certain things, but they can never be as emotional as us humans. If robots were able to understand human life and actually believed in a God what would they be thanking for or asking for. It is hard to imagine a robot praying because it just doesn't make sense they can never truly believe in a God.

Hanna Seidfathi

11/24/2019 05:26:30 pm

I believe that religion and prayer is a matter of faith and belief. It is up to each of us individually to decide if we believe our prayers are heard and answered by God. Even with that, every religion has its own faith and its own god that it worships and believes in. How could a piece of technology distinguish each individual religion and know which one to tune in to? For generations science and religion have gone head to head. One acts upon physics and science while the other acts upon belief and faith. For the two to join would be something I can not imagine. It would require a robot to have faith and form its own opinions. However, the robots we make today are completely generated based off of how we program them to be. They don't simply make their own free will choices. Therefor, for a robot to act on collective consciousness it would need to be able to think and believe for itself.

Angel Villaseñor Gonzalez

11/24/2019 09:19:18 pm

The idea that a computer can develop consciousness isn’t far off when it is taken into consideration that all human consciousness is just a complex interconnection of neurons creating an electrochemical circuit in our brains. The difference however, is that we have evolved to be able to recognize this consciousness where as computers have yet to reach this milestone, but with each innovation in AI such as quantum computing it is only becoming more feasible that computers sentience. Thus in short yes, it may be a long time before computers develop their own will, but I do think they will one day.

Emin Yeromian

11/24/2019 09:25:25 pm

I believe that prayer is based on our faiths where technology is based on facts, therefore I don’t believe eventually tech could tune into this collective frequency. I think with prayer the individual needs to have faith in what they believe in also, need to do it sincerely where artificial intelligence could never match that. AI would have trouble sincerely believing in something and also I don’t think AI is capable of believing in prayers because they purely believe in facts and statistics.

Agnes Nazarian

11/24/2019 10:33:09 pm

Although AI and technology are advancing one thing AI will not understand or comprehend is feelings. People turn to praying to have faith. People are already obsessed with what a robot is capable of understanding. I don’t think AI will ever be able to program itself due to the fact it is based off of what it is programmed to do or the amount of information that is put in its system.

Galilea Guzman

11/24/2019 10:48:35 pm

Robots do not have feelings or any sort of emotion, prayers require much of that. when people necessarily do prayers they are doing prayers to god. Majority of people know who god is and what they believe in him. Robots have no consciousness to understand because they have no real emotion. Robots are not functioned to have emotions but to do the work of necessities towards people.

Kenni Wake

11/24/2019 11:25:17 pm

I do believe AI could possibly tune into prayers and other tunes but would not act upon. They would simply only know what the remedy, pitch and rhythmic beat. For example, Google or Siri only register key words and tunes and act only when WE command it to. Yes, there have been AI being able to process and learn simple task and possibly evolve ever further. Even with religion and other faiths, computers would only understand the facts and mental science, but never act upon but just learning. AI can create its own will but only being able to have the will power to control the task they were programmed for.

Tomas Gonzalez

11/24/2019 11:47:37 pm

Prayer is a message to God asking to help them or thank him for whatever they believed was due to his power. Prayer also usually involves something that AI will never truly be able to "feel", which are emotions. Due to the fact emotions are most likely never going to be understood by an AI's analytics and data, it would be near impossible for them to know what it "feels" like to make their own choices. They would never know how it feels to do something that has rewards or consequences. They would have no moral compass to tell them whether something they are doing is right or wrong. The AI will always need someone to program what they do and in turn, decide what they should consider good/bad or right/wrong. On it's own, artificial intelligence would have little to no chance or developing it's own "will" or "conscience" due to not knowing how to create emotions and the compass saying whether a choice is "right or wrong" in the world's eyes.

Beaina Bedrossian

11/24/2019 11:53:57 pm

An artificial intelligence program does not necessarily need to be tuned-in to a collective consciousness to be able to emulate or even develop this kind of consciousness. Deep learning networks are formed the same way humans form connections in our brain. The program is fed a huge quantity of examples of something, and then begins forming its own version of that thing. AIs have been taught to recognize handwriting, play mobile games, tweet and write speeches, and more. Therefore, it is not far off to suggest that a computer could be shown examples of prayer and spirituality, and develop faith, spirituality, or purpose or even consciousness on its own. The idea of neural/deep learning networks is that the computer generates something beyond what it is given, completely on its own. Therefore, while the AI can technically "learn outside of programming" it probably won't "create its own will".

Cristian Benavides

11/24/2019 11:55:02 pm

The concept of a robot understanding what religion is takes some sort of consciousness in my opinion. Because most of the time people go toward religion when they have had real life situations that has made them believe that there is a being out there that is watching over them. Additionally it could take a couple of years from now for a robot to understand what emotions are. Furthermore, the robots that are available now a day have the capability to have basic conversations with people but most of the time don’t show emotions. In conclusion, I belive that ai could be capable of “creating its own will” but will take time in order for it to obtain that type of programming.

Roman Garibyan

11/24/2019 11:59:44 pm

AI has the ability to join together in a form akin to prayer for the purpose of evaluating and carrying out procedures. Although AI can gain far more information than it originally held through mutually shared data, this wouldn't be considered as "learning outside of programming" because the AI would only use the attained intelligence and resources to perform its initial task. While these operations do allow AI to virtually construct their own will, programmers will most likely have methods they can use to limit or override any malicious or unwanted concepts regarding AI's position in the future of our society.

Andre Aroyan

11/25/2019 11:00:57 am

I believe that AI can also tune to this collective frequency, analyze it, and act on it. I agree that it would take a long time for something like this to occur, but it is always a possibility that the AI can begin to create it’s own will. With the current rate of technological evolution, AI is nearing the point where it will eventually be more intelligent and efficient than humans. Although it’s a scary reality, we must accept it. Learning outside of programming can be a good thing in some cases, but in most, it can be quite dangerous, with no influence or guidance from the right places. We have a long way to go, but I’m sure that when we get there, we will be ready for what AI has in store for us.

Sirarpi Muradian

12/4/2019 09:32:58 am

I do not believe that AI can develop its own free will. AI will always be controlled by human technology developers. AI softwares do not have feelings or any sort of emotions, therefore, they are unable to act on "opinions" though they may not even have.
AI will eventually become learning, as the main goal of software developers is to encourage machine learning. However, I do not necessarily believe that machines can learn emotions. Sometimes, humans can have trouble identifying and acting upon emotions, so I imagine it will be even more difficult, and almost impossible, for machines to develop their own emotions. I don't think software developers would ever let them become that advanced.

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