Developing domain-specific artificial intelligence is more reliable, energy-efficient, and ethically tractable than creating artificial general intelligence, and it raises primarily a problem of effective coordination between different systems and humans. The argument holds that this approach will not require machines to be conscious and that simpler ways of sharing awareness are sufficient.
During binocular rivalry, when each eye sees a different image, perception alternates between them. Presenting the images intermittently with gaps longer than about 400 milliseconds slows or stops these alternations, a phenomenon called stabilization. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG) in healthy humans, the study found that perceptual content correlates with modulation of stimulus-specific activity in occipital/temporal brain areas 150–270 milliseconds after stimulus onset, possibly reflecting suppression of the non-perceived image. Stability builds gradually across at least ten trials and involves parietal activity.