Human Mind and AI

To create an artificial mind is no easy task, and regardless of how far scientist have gotten in creating the mind, we probably won’t ever have a perfect representation of a human mind. The study of the mind isn’t biology, chemistry, or physics; it is psychology. The field of psychology is a recent and new field compared to other sciences, so there is still much to learn about the mind. The mind isn’t perfect and new ideas, theories, and disorders are still discovered every year as we further our research. As one of the scientists had said in the reading, he would have the AI to be more of a companion or utility to help the human. That seems to be a better prediction of the potential for AI at the moment. The human mind is plastic (changeable/flexible) which the environment influences. The AI, in comparison, has a limited space in its hardrive and only changes with recoding its program.

            The human mind and the AI aren’t so different in the broader comparison. The coding that provides the computer it understands such as the binary code can represent the neuron. The language in an AI is stored within symbols and numbers. When needed, they activate providing the accurate data. The neuron works in the similar way of having certain neurons being specific to a certain memory or ideas in the brain. With these similarities, one wonders if the real reason to make a human like AI is to understand ourselves, but the human mind takes a lifetime to develop from birth to death. In a religious perspective, the idea of making an AI make give us a little taste of what it might feel to bring forth and create a new life form.