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Always seems to me that the goalposts keep moving as capabilities of AI improves. I swear to God we could have AGI+robotics capable of doing anything a human c

• Brian_K_White 2y ago
  They aren't and it isn't. So far it's all pure mechanism. However, when people talk like this, it does make one wonder if the opposite isn't true. No AI has done more than what an mp3 player does, but apparently there are people who hear an mp3 player say "Hello neighbor!" and actually believe that it greeted them.
  • DirkH 2y ago
    I think you are confusing intelligence with consciousness. They're orthogonal. Otherwise I do not know what definition of intelligence you are using. For me I just use wiki's: "Intelligence can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context." Nothing in that definition disallows a system from being "pure mechanism" and also being intelligent. An mp3 player isn't intelligent because - unlike AI - it isn't taking in information to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context. An mp3 player that learns my preferences over time and knows exactly when to say hi and how based on contextual cues is displaying intelligence. But I would be mistaken for thinking that it doing so means it is also conscious.