of course; consciousness is a biologically inherited trait. that inheritance can't cross the human-machine interface.
JPLeRouzic•1h ago
> consciousness is a biologically inherited trait
That consciousness is a biologically trait seems a common statement, but why "inherited"?
subscribed•9m ago
I presume you used "biologically" to emphasise we don't yet know any non-biological consciousnesses, not that you determine, a priori, that the consciousness must be and is always rooted in the wet organic matter?
I don't think you could come up with a good theory for the latter and there's nothing that would preclude the existence of the artificial / inorganic consciousness - after all, correct me if I'm mistaken, we have no idea how the consciousness emerge in some biological entities.
jaspervanderee•1h ago
Nor wil LLMs achieve AGI. There will be too many contradicting ideas in its source code.
parliament32•31m ago
Why would a text generator ever be conscious? Was this really worth writing a paper about?
torginus•27m ago
I wish there was more research (maybe philosophy) would go into characterizing consciousness and intelligence, so that we could at least define what we are missing in current AI systems.
lmf4lol•5m ago
Phew. Good news! Imagine the AI behemoths would have to take into account the feeling of their slave labour machines! Don‘t have to do that if they wont/cant be conscious.
And neither do I have to worry then if ask then to do stupid sh*t for me :-)
But on a serious note. Does it matter? I think Hinton said it pretty well: Not really! what matters is that we treat it as conscious beings.
adyashakti•1h ago
JPLeRouzic•1h ago
That consciousness is a biologically trait seems a common statement, but why "inherited"?
subscribed•9m ago
I don't think you could come up with a good theory for the latter and there's nothing that would preclude the existence of the artificial / inorganic consciousness - after all, correct me if I'm mistaken, we have no idea how the consciousness emerge in some biological entities.