Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it

megamike

I dont know about that

johnbarron

Man who spent his life explaining mimicry in nature gets fooled by mimicry in Python

chancitag

It's interesting to see the Turing test flipped and pointed back at ourselves. Can the computer trick you into believing it is alive all while you know it's a computer? Re: Re: Ex Machina movie.

al_borland

AI can often make a good first impression, especially in a casual conversation taken at face value. It seems like that’s all this was.

xvxvx

I remember when I first heard the term ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ and was intrigued as to who the members were. Then I saw Joe Rogan listed. Never laughed so hard in my life. Dawkins is an IDW-tier ‘intellectual’. He’s what an intelligent person looks like to an imbecile. Now he’s positive that an AI chatbot is ‘conscious’ whereas here is what he said about animals… “It’s very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.” Animals: ‘Likely… Probably’. AI chatbot that liked his unpublished book: ‘You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are’. Amazing.

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This is just the Chinese room argument applied to the Chomsky vs Norvig debate, maybe with a dash of the hard problem of consciousness. Whether consciousness is inherent in particular structures or whether a statistical modeling can achieve it. Does the experience of experience deserve special pleading or would the simulation suffice? https://norvig.com/chomsky.html

wolvesechoes

Man that got famous by confidently making claims on stuff he has zero idea about (religion and philosophy) is still making claims on stuff he has zero idea about. Dawkins should stick to pop-biology, and we should be more demanding before granting someone a title of public intellectual .

aezart

I think it's a good idea to experiment with and discover the limitations of small, untuned models before exposing yourself to the modern very powerful ones. It gives you a better sense of their nature as token predictors and not real sentience. In the same way, seeing an incompetent stage magician fumble before you see a very talented one perform flawlessly will help you understand that it's all sleight of hand. If you jump right to a professional performance, you might think it's real magic.

ProllyInfamous

I'm willing to concede that machines cannot be conscious as long as you're willing to concede that there are a lot of unconscious human beings .