Why Computers Will Never Be Truly Conscious.

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Attempts to build supercomputer brains have not even come close to the real thing.

A cyborg may look conscious, but is it?
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▼ Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward buildinga conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multisensory  information. The assumption goes, then, that once brain functions are properly understood, it should be possible to program them into a computer. Microsoft recently announced that it would spend US$1  billion on a projectto do just that.
So far, though, attempts to build supercomputer brains have not even come close. A multi-billion-dollar  European projectthat began in 2013 is now largely understood to have failed. That effort has shifted to look more like a similar but less ambitious projectin the U.S., developing new software  tools for researchersto study brain data, rather than simulating a brain.
Some researchers continue to insist that simulating neuroscience with  computersis the way to go. Others, like me, view these efforts as doomed to failure because we do not believe  consciousness is computable. Our basic argument is that brains integrate and compress multiple components of an experience, including sight and smell — which simply can't be handled in the way today's computers sense, process and store data.
Brains don't operate like computers
Living organisms store experiences in their brains by adapting neural  connectionsin an active process  between the subject and the  environment. By contrast, a computer records data in short-term and long-term memory blocks. That difference means the brain's information handling must also be different from how computers work.
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asr335704

That explains why human brain functions are not so easy to be replicated by computers even though scientists continue to try it. It would be difficult for them to accomplish this in near future also.

abhidebb

Nicely written. Truly learrnt a lot from this article.

soothsayer

Every effort made however tries to bring the machine closer to man!

parivijesh100

Machine will remain machine because they can match IQ level but what about EQ & Social Q. Human particularly takes many decisions using heart suppressing Intelligence.  Social impact us also considered.  Compute can not do it as of now.