| ▲ | Workaccount2 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
>Why does AGI necessitate having feelings or consciousness No one knows if it does or not. We don't know why we are conscious and we have no test whatsoever to measure consciousness. In fact the only reason we know that current AI has no consciousness is because "obviously it's not conscious." | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | quonn 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Excel and Powerpoint are not conscious and so there is not reason to expect any other computation inside a digital computer to be different. You may say something similar for matter and human minds, but we have a very limited and incomplete understanding of the brain and possibly even of the universe. Furthermore we do have a subjective experience of consciousness. On the other hand we have a complete understanding of how LLM inference ultimately maps to matrix multiplications which map to discrete instructions and how those execute on hardware. | |||||||||||||||||
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