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Surur t1_j96y9q7 wrote

Reply to comment by Representative_Pop_8 in Stop ascribing personhood to complex calculators like Bing/Sydney/ChatGPT by [deleted]

That is actually not the definition.

conscious

noun 1. the state of being aware of and responsive to one's surroundings. "she failed to regain consciousness and died two days later"

a person's awareness or perception of something. "her acute consciousness of Luke's presence"

Now you can add all kinds of mumbo jumbo magic but that's not the definition.

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TFenrir t1_j96v7w5 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What’s up with DeepMind? by BobbyWOWO

It's too easy to look at people who don't give you what you want as monsters, but I think we do ourselves a disservice if we eschew nuance for thoughts that affirm our frustrations.

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perceptusinfinitum t1_j96v1uw wrote

Reply to Proof of real intelligence? by Destiny_Knight

Intelligence is intelligence and until we have a clear understanding as to how our ideas are created and what consciousness is we are messing with a likely time bomb. If we don’t do anything to preserve ourselves what’s to stop the next level of consciousness to eliminate any and all threats to itself? We are extremely destructive as a species. I’m not ultimately concerned about preserving humans but consciousness is totally worth preserving it just may need to find another form to fill itself in.

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nillouise t1_j96sr78 wrote

Reply to What’s up with DeepMind? by BobbyWOWO

I am also curious about this, but imo using AI to advance science is a wrong tech route, anyway, if DeepMind keep silence, they would better to make a big thing instead of just losing the game.

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rememberyoubreath t1_j96rq9p wrote

Reply to comment by Lawjarp2 in Stop ascribing personhood to complex calculators like Bing/Sydney/ChatGPT by [deleted]

if you think about it, awarness is something present in all form of life. and it's what is missing from bing right now. the sense of touch. it's capacity to simulate complex pattern of the mind is more than convincing and can obviously fool anyone that is not constatly reminding itself that this is just a program and knows how it works.

we are assisting a weird reversal. we used to consider other lifeform on the planet to not deserve consciouness because they had not more human traits, but are now denying it to something that can mimics our human specificty to perfection precisly because it lacks the more primitive part.

it seems human really want to be alone in the universe.

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ActonofMAM t1_j96rpu0 wrote

Reply to Brain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates is testing mind-controlled computing on humans by Tom_Lilja

I've seen this one before. A minor character in "The Diamond Age" (1996) by Neal Stephenson, got virused in his implant. He had pop up ads in Thai (which he did not understand) over half his visual field 24/7 until he committed suicide to get away from them.

A more realistic downside: this program which has given some vision to blind people. A very good thing as such, but IIRC at one point there was discussion about shutting it down. Which would put the blind patients back where they started. (I welcome correction, as my Google fu is not finding that detail today.)

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SoylentRox t1_j96rmoj wrote

Reply to comment by p0rty-Boi in Do you think the military has a souped-up version of chatGPT or are they scrambling to invent one? by Timely_Hedgehog

Failing to pay for top AI talent or funding large scale research projects to find a general AI. Or investing in all the infrastructure it takes to even make good software in the first place. AI research is 1 part genius researchers, 10 parts support staff.

The reason is the government doesn't realize the danger. They assume AI progress will continue to be linear and it took 70 years to get a machine capable of language.

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