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> 1. Qualia is a product of configuration of matter to produce a result using energy.

Yes, this is what I think it is. We just don't know what kind of configuration is needed. In the end we may end up with two systems (brain and AGI) with similar performance on tasks, but no clue whether they both produce qualia. The details of the implementation (substrate) may matter.

Even within our own brains, we aren't consciously aware of all the activity occuring to regulate heart rate, breathing, body temperature, and other unconscoous processes. There is some matter construction which separates the qualia of our "awareness" from the rest of our brain, even though it's all physically connected, and even though those "unconscious" regions are doing a lot of computation. There is a boundary to our qualia set by the physical structure. Investigating why that is would be a good place to start, if only we had the technology to probe it.

It may be that the electronic chips we produce have qualia like our aware region, or are instead like our unaware brain regions, or something different.

>The genie is out of the bottle, there's zero chance just two or three companies will get to keep it. Every billionaire worth their salt is focusing heavily on the AI field right now

Agreed .. but these big firms will all do their darndest to 'tax' the population's use of AI.

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Care to explain how it is morally corrupt? And in particular, how it is different to before their death?

Also, is any alteration morally wrong? Is it your opinion for example, that quoting Shakespeare is wrong? Or what about old paintings, shouldn't they be restored?

no, basically nothing in terms of fundamental research

There are just two possibilities.

1. Qualia is a product of configuration of matter to produce a result using energy.

2. Qualia is a product of configuration of something that isn't matter.

If it's 1, then it should be replicable with technology (it's a matter of off/on and that's it, transistors, neurons).

If it's 2, then science makes no sense.

OK. So what makes Bing not appear to actually be conscious?

Now what if you fixed all of those issues? Now what’s preventing it from appearing actually conscious? Nothing? You can’t disprove it’s consciousness?

Well, if it looks like a zebra, eats like a zebra, sounds like a zebra, and acts like a zebra, it might be a zebra.

Look up “hard problem of consciousness” and you’ll see why this doesn’t really work. Firstly, we don’t actually know wether anyone other than yourself is conscious. Also “extending” consciousness wouldn’t confirm that a machine is conscious. Certain parts of the human body such as the nervous system can “extend” our consciousness but this doesn’t mean they are conscious by themselves.

A purely rational human would stop doing anything until they died of dehydration. Doesn't seem great to me. And of course empathy can easily turn people into tools. Willpower would be great though.

Missing parts of the architecture... I'm still wondering whether inference alone could cause consciousness or inference and continuous backpropagation would cause consciousness...

Continuous backpropagation is how our brain can continuously learn... Neural networks cannot do this continuously it requires too much energy...

large language model, inner monologue, world model, visual and textual datasets (multimodal)...

Combine all these things and will have something really great

Nothing is sacred anymore.

https://github.com/archinetai/audio-ai-timeline

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Occam's razor.

Want to thank you for helping combat dehumanization.

> Qualia is software, not hardware.

You cannot know this right now. You're not being honest with what you actually know.

We like to compare brains to computers, since that's the current technology that most resembles it, but they don't necessarily work the same way. The way computation is performed in them is very different. I can't even begin to guess where qualia in a brain comes from, so I won't attempt to identify a location or process in a computer either.

I don't ascribe to quantum mysticism or anything like that. I'm totally in the camp of "show me the facts, show me predictions we can test". We haven't tested qualia to any meaningful extent to know its origin. It's a mystery, like lightning was before we knew about ions and electric fields.

I think it’s fairly morally corrupt to alter someone’s work after their death.

i don't think this has happened yet, but certainly will in the future

torrenting is also illegal

Unless you're talking about quantum mysticism, no, there's nothing inherently different. It's a matter of algorithmic implementation. Qualia is software, not hardware.

https://www.businessinsider.com/deepmind-secret-plot-break-away-from-google-project-watermelon-mario-2021-9

DeepMind (Demis) is against corporation approaches. Google bought DeepMind and Demis later regretted that transaction. They're in a tense relationship, which explains why in the last years Alphabet has heavily invested in Google AI to separate themselves from DeepMind. Anyone that follows closely the AI news would know that Google is ignoring most DeepMind news. They don't even tweet about their progress, yet they tweet everything about Google AI.

They have two LLMs (Lambda and Sparrow), and the one that's going to be released on Google is Lambda, not Sparrow (DeepMind). DeepMind is a rebel inner research team inside Google. I wouldn't even say they're inside Google, they're not even in the same country.

Not necessarily. There could be some difference between silicon calculators and biological ones that gives us qualia, but not silicon calculators.

We should be totally honest with ourselves here.

Without enhanced abilities.

More like "Here's exactly how to make a car that can run for 200,000 miles on one drop of water. I'm not going to make it though, because won't someone think of the poor oil barons?"

then

"ZOMG!!!! Someone made the car and is selling it for billions???"

It's baffling that Google has sat on the tech for so long, and fully justified that another upstart is castrating them after actually using it

Deepmind is owned by Google.