2024 Volume 2023 Issue AGI-026 Pages 18-25
The recent development of generative AI is remarkable. It can generate natural sentences, images, and even videos. It is said that this will lead to the emergence of artificial general intelligence in the near future. However, what generative AI creates is something that feels natural to humans. This can be said to be an outside perspective. However, the goal of artificial general intelligence is an AI that understands things in the same way as humans. If this is the case, what we should aim for is an AI that has consciousness that feels just like humans. This can be said to be an internal perspective. To do this, we must first clarify how consciousness in the brain perceives the world and how it understands the meaning of words. Therefore, we propose the "virtual world hypothesis of consciousness." This hypothesis is also a theory that can berealized concretely with computers.
