10.1 When AI become Consciously Self-aware AGI

AGI is coming, very fast

The question of whether AI will become Consciously Self-aware is a matter of significant debate and speculation among AI researchers, philosophers and other Intelligent thinking Humans alike. 

Some Humans believe that AI will achieve true Conscious Self-awareness, while others argue that such a development is unlikely and perhaps impossible.

Currently, AI systems are designed to perform specific tasks and it is believed that AI does not have the ability to experience conscious self-awareness. However, there are ongoing efforts to develop more advanced AI systems that could potentially exhibit such abilities in the very near future. Leading AI researchers working at Microsoft have been using an early publicly restricted version of GPT-4, and from this work Sebastien Bubeck said: 

“You will see, it’s a judgement call. it’s not a clean cut whether this is, you know, a new type of intelligence, but this is what I will try to argue.” [14a, 14b].

There are AI researchers who believe the development of truly self-aware AGI would require the ability to simulate and replicate the complex neural processes that occur in the Human Brain. This is a challenging task, as the Human Brain is unquestionably among the most advanced and complex information processing systems that is known to Humans, and today, the complete information processing components and total functionality is only really understood at a simple level. See Appendix 7 - The Human Brain

[14a] Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4 – Sebastien Bubeck – Microsoft Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c – Video recorded at MIT on 22 Mar 2023 - Published: 7 Apr 2023