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There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence – Nature

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Re: There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence – Nature

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> There is no such thing as conscious AI.

They said it in nature so it must be true. Well, I'm convinced.

> We believe that these flawed associations arise from a lack of technical knowledge and the way several new technologies (especially LLMs) work, which can create the illusion of consciousness.

Ah yes, the dude that has a phd in cognitive neuroscience and has received a nobel prize for his AI contributions to chemistry, definitely doesn't understand how this technology works.

> We believe that mathematical algorithms implemented on graphics cards cannot become conscious because they lack a complex biological substrate.

Ah, yes the substrate stuff. Darn klankers, they're built out of silicon, they surely can't do x and y because muh biology.

What a weak article. Give hydrogen a few bilion years and it starts feeling superior to silicon.

Re: There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence – Nature

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> There is no such thing as conscious AI. They said it in nature so it must be true. Well, I'm convinced. > We believe that these flawed associations arise from a lack of technical knowledge and the way several new technologies (especially LLMs) work, which can create the illusion of consciousness. Ah yes, the dude that has a phd in cognitive neuroscience and has received a nobel prize for his AI contributions to che…

> They said it in nature so it must be true. Well, I'm convinced.

It's not "Nature" (informally "Plain Nature") It's one of the related journals by the same publisher

> nature > humanities and social sciences communications

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I'm ignoring all these post, the ones that say "yes" and the ones that say "no". It will be solved in a few years. Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1002/