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Why do people conflate consciousness with AGI? Intelligence is about being able to use information, make deductions, inferences or hypotheses. And presumably
by MattPalmer1086 7mo ago
Why do people conflate consciousness with AGI?
Intelligence is about being able to use information, make deductions, inferences or hypotheses. And presumably use that to inform action.
Consciousness is about having an internal experience. I would regard many living things as having consciousness but not a general intelligence.
- satisfice 7mo agoThere is no point in talking about AGI unless you mean sentience. That’s what everyone cares about. The rest is technobabble.
- MattPalmer1086 7mo agoWhy would anyone specifically care about making a machine that can experience feelings? Could be dumb as a brick, but sentient.
- satisfice 7mo agoIt's what everyone other than pedantic jerks think AGI means. Read a book. Watch a movie. Every depiction of AGI is essentially a depiction of a human. Sometimes a human without substantial emotions. That's sentience.
- MattPalmer1086 7mo agoThe focus of AGI is on achieving human equivalence in cognitive tasks, or to surpass it ("intelligence"). That's where the money and the research is. Making a stupid machine that happens to be aware ("sentient") isnt the goal.
- WithinReason 7mo agobecause the I in AGI stands for intelligence, not sentience.
- satisfice 7mo agoThat's not what anyone means by it. Are you paying attention to why people care about AGI? AGI means "human-like."
- Sharmaji000 7mo agodumbest thing i heard.
- WithinReason 7mo agobesides, even humans don't have general intelligence
- sph 7mo agoSpeak for yourself.