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I'm not sure the problem of hard solipsism will ever be solved. So, when an AI can effectively say, "yes, I too am conscious" with as much believability as the
by technothrasher 4y ago
I'm not sure the problem of hard solipsism will ever be solved. So, when an AI can effectively say, "yes, I too am conscious" with as much believability as the human sitting next to you, I think we may have no choice but to accept it.
- nassimm 4y agoWhat if the answer "yes, I am conscious" was computed by hand instead of using a computer, (even if the answer takes years and billions of people to compute it) would you still accept that the language model is sentient ?
- falcor84 4y agoNot the parent, but yes. We're still a bit far from this scientifically, but to the best of my knowledge, there's nothing preventing us from following "by hand" the activation pattern in a human nervous system that would lead to phrasing the same sentence. And I don't see how this has anything to do with consciousness.
- nassimm 4y agoWe absolutely cannot do that at the moment. We do not know how to simulate a brain nor if we ever will be able to.
- falcor84 4y agoJust to clarify,I wasn't implying simulation, but rather something like single-unit recordings[0] of a live human brain as it goes about it. I think that this is the closest to "following" an artificial neutral network, which we also don't know how to "simulate" short of running the whole thing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-unit_recording https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-unit_recording