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Not the OP, but such systems might be conscious in some sense. Hard to say without an actual mechanistic understanding of consciousness. We can characterize a s
by naasking 4y ago
Not the OP, but such systems might be conscious in some sense. Hard to say without an actual mechanistic understanding of consciousness. We can characterize a sorting algorithm by an ordering property, but we just don't know the properties of consciousness.
- brookst 4y agoFair, and of course our colloquial understanding of “consciousness” varies. But I think most of us root consciousness in something like reflection / theory of mind, and I am highly skeptical that a calculator even remotely touches on that.
- naasking 4y ago"Reflection" or "theory of mind" are still incredibly vague. We need something like this to build a formal model: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116933119 Some existing ML have models of attention, so they might be conscious? But maybe it's not the same kind of attention that produces consciousness? It's all still very murky.