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Another thing that humans do but AIs don't: They recognize that they are doing everything on your list and wonder how they do it. This self-aware consciousness
by mannykannot 7y ago
Another thing that humans do but AIs don't: They recognize that they are doing everything on your list and wonder how they do it. This self-aware consciousness is something that goes beyond any particular skill.
- ben_w 7y agoI’m curious: has anyone actually tested how many humans “wonder how they do [a thing]”? What would such a test of the general population even look like?
- mannykannot 7y agoI am not aware of any such study - not that that means anything. If one assumes, as seems reasonable to me, that a person's theory of mind is based on at least a tacit assumption that other people function somewhat like oneself, then one might make the working assumption that experiments on a person's theory of mind [1] also reveal something about how they tacitly perceive themselves. If you want to know something about their explicit thoughts about their mental capabilities, one could start by asking them. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind#Empirical_investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind#Empirical_inves...