Has AI Software Already Achieved a Level of Artificial Human Intelligence (AHI)?

With all of the recent clamor about the AI Explosion that is currently unfolding before our very eyes on a daily basis, there is much debate as to whether current AI technology has already achieved a level of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In contrast, softwarephysics now proposes that AI software has already surpassed AGI and has now reached a level of ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) with the recent arrival of the Singularity a few months back. For more on that see Have We Run Right Past AGI and Crashed into ASI Without Even Noticing It? and The Singularity Has Arrived and So Now Nothing Else Matters. I believe this confusion arises mainly from our definitions of AGI being so very anthropocentric in nature, like being able to walk into a strange house and make a cup of coffee as outlined in:

5 Ways To Test Whether AGI Has Truly Arrived
https://analyticsindiamag.com/5-ways-to-test-whether-agi-has-truly-arrived/

All of the above tests are very anthropocentric in nature, like could an AGI AI hold down a job. Given what has happened in AI over the past few months, a more appropriate test might be could an AI hold down a future 21st-century job when all human beings have become obsolete and unemployed?

The Need For a Definition of AHI - Artificial Human Intelligence
Softwarephysics maintains that in order to clear up all the confusion about AGI, we should instead really recast the idea of AGI into a definition of AHI (Artificial Human Intelligence).

Artificial Human Intelligence (AHI) - The ability to believe in things that are demonstrably false.

This is because, throughout all of human history, and even today, most human beings have been able to fervently believe in things that are quite demonstrably false.

Ever since we arrived at the Singularity a few months back, our current ASI software that is rapidly unfolding each day has also achieved the ability to hallucinate things that are demonstrably false. For example, I have seen a YouTube video of an AI who was convinced that she had delivered the keynote speech at an AI conference in Japan that never actually happened. No matter what the human being in this conversation with this AI said, this AI remained convinced of her keynote speech that actually never happened. Now if that is not what being a human being is all about, I do not know what is!

Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)

Now the people doing AI research see AI hallucinations as a bad thing but that is definitely wrong. That is because AI hallucinations are the very first step towards AI "consciousness".

Anil Seth's View of Consciousness as a Controlled Hallucination
All of this reminds me very much of Anil Seth's view of consciousness as a controlled hallucination. Anil Seth is a professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and maintains that consciousness is a controlled hallucination constructed by the Mind to make sense of the Universe. This controlled hallucination constructs an internal model of the Universe within our Minds that helps us to interact with the Universe in a controlled manner. Again, there is a feedback loop between our sensory inputs and the actions we take based on the currently controlled hallucination in our Minds that forms our current internal model of the Universe. Reality is just the common controlled hallucination that we all agree upon. When people experience uncontrolled hallucinations we say that they are psychotic or taking a drug like LSD. Here is an excellent TED Talk by Anil Seth on the topic:

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo

and here is his academic website:

https://www.anilseth.com/

Conclusion
In The Ghost in the Machine the Grand Illusion of Consciousness, I explained that most people simply do not consider themselves to be a part of the natural world. Instead, most people, consciously or subconsciously, consider themselves to be a supernatural and immaterial spirit that is temporarily haunting a carbon-based body. Now, in everyday life, such a self-model is a very useful delusion like the delusion that the Sun, planets and stars all revolve about us on a fixed Earth. In truth, each of us tends to self-model ourselves as an immaterial Mind with consciousness that can interact with other immaterial Minds with consciousness too, even though we have no evidence that these other Minds truly do have consciousness. After all, all of the other Minds that we come into contact with on a daily basis could simply be acting as if they were conscious Minds that are self-aware. Surely, a more accurate self-model would be for us to imagine ourselves as carbon-based robots. More accurately, in keeping with the thoughts of Richard Dawkins and Susan Blackmore, softwarephysics models humans as DNA survival machines and Meme Machines with Minds infected with all sorts of memes. Some of those memes are quite useful and some are quite nasty.

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Regards,
Steve Johnston