This is why it's important to talk about the tricky stuff like the hard problem of consciousness, even if there's no definitive answer as of yet.
Too many people (even in marxist circles) have really jumbled up ideas in their heads about what intelligence and consciousness really means rarely based on anything more other than the (really shitty) intuitions people get from sci-fi movies, techbro pitches and pop-sci articles about AI.
The tricky part is that while we don't know what it is, we do know that it's not some specific part. It's an emergent property of some arrangement of non-conscious parts, independent of whether those parts are meat or sand. Can a GAN develop consciousness in any meaningful way? No, but the idea of consciousness emerging from a computer isn't entirely unthinkable, it's just unlikely.
I definitely get a sense of people generally believing consciousness is like a big dial that you keep cranking and that we just dont have the tech to crank it to 11 yet.
This is why it's important to talk about the tricky stuff like the hard problem of consciousness, even if there's no definitive answer as of yet.
Too many people (even in marxist circles) have really jumbled up ideas in their heads about what intelligence and consciousness really means rarely based on anything more other than the (really shitty) intuitions people get from sci-fi movies, techbro pitches and pop-sci articles about AI.
The tricky part is that while we don't know what it is, we do know that it's not some specific part. It's an emergent property of some arrangement of non-conscious parts, independent of whether those parts are meat or sand. Can a GAN develop consciousness in any meaningful way? No, but the idea of consciousness emerging from a computer isn't entirely unthinkable, it's just unlikely.
I definitely get a sense of people generally believing consciousness is like a big dial that you keep cranking and that we just dont have the tech to crank it to 11 yet.
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