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Nowadays it seems rather easy to have a computer that talks as if it were conscious. Do you think it really does perceive itself the same way we do? I woke up a
by exitb 2y ago
Nowadays it seems rather easy to have a computer that talks as if it were conscious. Do you think it really does perceive itself the same way we do? I woke up a human today, but someone else woke up an algorithm?
If not, what’s missing?
- yldedly 2y agoAccording to the theory, an attention model. Here's artificial consciousness in three steps: 1. Have a robot build perception models of its environment and itself 2. Have the robot allocate computational resources and sensory bandwidth to the models using attention 3. Have the robot control attention using model predictive control Because the attention model is less detailed than its actual attention, by virtue of being a model, it doesn't represent the mechanisms of attention or modeling accurately. Instead, it uses non-physical concepts such as "mental possession" to model itself or other agents paying attention to things, or "qualia" to denote the recursion that occurs when percepts we attend to are summarized by the attention model (which in turn can be attended to, and so on).
- n4r9 2y agoI don't think there's anything in principle preventing computers from becoming conscious, if that's what you're asking. I'm not convinced LLMs are there yet, although sometimes they do sound like it.