AI beats humans on visual test + AI Consciousness - a reply to Schwizgebel

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AI system performs better than 75 percent of American adults on standard visual intelligence test
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ai-system-perf...gence-test

EXCERPT: A Northwestern University team has developed a new visual problem-solving computational model that performs in the 75th percentile for American adults on a standard intelligence test. The research is an important step toward making artificial-intelligence systems that see and understand the world as humans do...

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AI Consciousness: A Reply to Schwitzgebel (Guest post by Susan Schneider)
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/201...gebel.html

EXCERPT: If AI outsmarts us, I hope its conscious. It might help with the horrifying control problem – the problem of how to control superintelligent AI (SAI), given that SAI would be vastly smarter than us and could rewrite its own code. Just as some humans respect nonhuman animals because animals feel, so too, conscious SAI might respect us because they see within us the light of conscious experience. So, will an SAI (or even a less intelligent AI) be conscious? In a recent Ted talk, Nautilus and Huffington Post pieces, and some academic articles (all at my website) I’ve been urging that it is an important open question. I love Schwitzgebel's reply because he sketches the best possible scenario for AI consciousness [...] Maybe it is just that I'm too despondent since Princess Leah died. But here's a few reasons why I still see the glass half empty...

[Ben the Donkey]

AI system performs better than 75 percent of American adults on standard visual intelligence test
http://www.kurzweilai.net/ai-system-perf...gence-test

EXCERPT: A Northwestern University team has developed a new visual problem-solving computational model that performs in the 75th percentile for American adults on a standard intelligence test. The research is an important step toward making artificial-intelligence systems that see and understand the world as humans do...

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AI Consciousness: A Reply to Schwitzgebel (Guest post by Susan Schneider)
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/201...gebel.html

EXCERPT: If AI outsmarts us, I hope its conscious. It might help with the horrifying control problem – the problem of how to control superintelligent AI (SAI), given that SAI would be vastly smarter than us and could rewrite its own code. Just as some humans respect nonhuman animals because animals feel, so too, conscious SAI might respect us because they see within us the light of conscious experience. So, will an SAI (or even a less intelligent AI) be conscious? In a recent Ted talk, Nautilus and Huffington Post pieces, and some academic articles (all at my website) I’ve been urging that it is an important open question. I love Schwitzgebel's reply because he sketches the best possible scenario for AI consciousness [...] Maybe it is just that I'm too despondent since Princess Leah died. But here's a few reasons why I still see the glass half empty...

With regard to no 1 - It's about time. 
As long as the AI only comes to conclusions and doesn't make decisions , y'all outta be happy. 
At the very least, it'll demonstrate and create a bar we should probably be able to leap should it prove necessaryy.