>My speculative take: it might be that intelligence is mostly a natural consequence of building a high-dimensional association map between sensory inputs. What

>My speculative take: it might be that intelligence is mostly a natural consequence of building a high-dimensional association map between sensory inputs. What if consciousness actually is the high dimensional entity that can map to sensory input and motor output of neural networks? Then expecting it to emerge from highly manipulated memory spaces would be like shocking cadaver brains with lighting to get a person... Physics is looking more and more like it cannot actually describe an objective reality that is perceived, pointing more to reality being the descriptions that we can build of experience in high dimensional spaces. But speculation apart, it doesn't much matter how we think of chatbots or what they can do. Ultimately all AI/ML stuff is just up front compute stored in models, and they are just forms of capital. They will be used as other forms of capital. To think that we can build people surrogates because chatbots are getting impressive is... sales hype pure and simple. Much like thinking you don't need servers because you use "the cloud". You're just outsourcing engineering, something that has been done for centuries.