Are conscious machines possible? - Big Think

MICHAEL WOOLDRIDGE: AI is not about trying to create life, right? But it's kind of, very much feels like that. I mean, if we ever achieved the ultimate dream of AI, which I call the "Hollywood dream of AI," the kind of thing that we see in Hollywood movies, then we will have created machines that are conscious, potentially, in the same way that human beings are. So it's very like that kind of dream of creating life- and that, in itself, is a very old dream. It goes back to the ancient Greeks: The Greeks had myths about the blacksmiths to the gods who could create life from metal creatures.