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The search for consciousness inside AI

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Re: The search for consciousness inside AI

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Could you provide a brief summary of the key points?

They found something in the way AI uses the model which could be compared to some basic brain functions. It keeps the dollars coming in.

Thanks. I've just read a few books on theories of consciousness, and I was under the impression that consciousness would require some kind of non-feed-forward physical system, rather than the sort of hardware current AI runs on. Did the article mention anything along those lines?