arXiv:2412.04571cs.AIcs.CY2024-12被引 24

AI能模仿人类行为,但未必有主观体验。

Dissociating Artificial Intelligence from Artificial Consciousness

  • 用整合信息理论分析系统,区分功能等价与意识等价
  • 数字计算机可完全模拟人脑行为却不具备真实体验
  • 挑战计算功能主义,强调意识需特定物理结构

机器学习和算力的发展表明通用人工智能已近在咫尺。这引出一个关键问题:若一台计算机在功能上与人类完全等价,能否像人一样感知视觉、听觉和思想?要对此给出严谨回答,必须基于扎根于现象学的意识理论,并明确任何系统(进化或人工)产生主观体验的必要与充分条件。本文采用整合信息理论(IIT),该理论提供了判断系统是否具有意识、意识程度及经验内容的原理性工具。我们考察由简单布尔单元构成的系统对,其中一个——基础存储程序计算机——以全功能等价方式模拟另一个。通过应用IIT原则,我们证明:(i) 两个系统可功能等价但现象学上不等价;(ii) 此结论不依赖于被模拟系统的具体功能。进一步表明,根据IIT,数字计算机可能模拟人类行为,甚至模拟大脑神经元,却无法复制我们的主观体验。这与计算功能主义——即执行正确类型的计算就足以产生意识——形成鲜明对比。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Developments in machine learning and computing power suggest that artificial general intelligence is within reach. This raises the question of artificial consciousness: if a computer were to be functionally equivalent to a human, being able to do all we do, would it experience sights, sounds, and thoughts, as we do when we are conscious? Answering this question in a principled manner can only be done on the basis of a theory of consciousness that is grounded in phenomenology and that states the necessary and sufficient conditions for any system, evolved or engineered, to support subjective experience. Here we employ Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which provides principled tools to determine whether a system is conscious, to what degree, and the content of its experience. We consider pairs of systems constituted of simple Boolean units, one of which -- a basic stored-program computer -- simulates the other with full functional equivalence. By applying the principles of IIT, we demonstrate that (i) two systems can be functionally equivalent without being phenomenally equivalent, and (ii) that this conclusion is not dependent on the simulated system's function. We further demonstrate that, according to IIT, it is possible for a digital computer to simulate our behavior, possibly even by simulating the neurons in our brain, without replicating our experience. This contrasts sharply with computational functionalism, the thesis that performing computations of the right kind is necessary and sufficient for consciousness.

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