Gigaom AI Minute – May 9

Transcript

We recently surveyed Gigaom's audience about their views on artificial intelligence. Our audience it primarily made up of business people that have an interest in technology and I would like to use the next several AI minutes to explore the answers.

The ninth and final question on our AI survey goes like this: "The human brain, the human mind, and human consciousness are completely mechanistic, and they can be replicated by machines."

The number of people who said, "Yes, that's true," is 10%. The number of people who said, "No, that's definitely not true, there's something else going on," is 50%, 5-to-1. And, again, the number of people who say they didn't know is 40%. Pretty much half of the people say they don't know what we are and whether we are mechanistic and how our minds and consciousness come about. But of the people who profess opinions, most of them think we are something different than a purely mechanistic system.