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Conscious AI is the second scariest kind
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoAn interesting article by Peter Watts, author of Blindsight, on why AI consciousness may not be the most scary thing that could emerge.
- nabla9 3y agoA great piece of writing.
- ProllyInfamous 3y agohttps://archive.is/njsSX https://archive.is/njsSX
- grantcas 3y ago[dead]
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y agoText-only, no Javascript, works where archive.is is blocked: curl -si40A "" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/ai-consciousness-science-fiction/677659/ \ |grep -o "ArticleParagraph_root.*</p>" \ |sed 's/.\{61\}/<meta charset=utf-8\/>/' > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm links -no-connect -force-html 1.htm Disabling Javascript also works. Ads require Javascript, reading the article does not
- ProllyInfamous 3y agoDishBrain, described in this fantastic article, apparently figured out how to play Pong [better than `chance`] without being told to "achieve a high score" — using petri-dish-grown brain cells with only a very basic input/output [limbic] system. Basic info on DishBrain: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-can-you-GK9aohldRJqh9oTCRUy8gA https://www.perplexity.ai/search/What-can-you-GK9aohldRJqh9o... ---- I love Author Watts' comparison that grasshoppers have less neurons than DishBrain, and yet are often considered sentient. ---- My only [potential?] "fact check" would be that the inventor of the Paper Clip Maximization Theory is actually Ilya Sudkowski.