One needs external insights in order to decide the validity or otherwise of an algorithm (more about this later). I am putting forward the argument here that it is this ability to divine (or ‘intuit’) truth from falsity (and beauty from ugliness!), in appropriate circumstances, that is the hallmark of consciousness.
Unsupervised machine learning?
Are we all feeding these external criteria with Google, Facebook and others?
Is that the real goal of these companies?
