Appreciate the thoughtful response. But electrical I/O is a single facet of the neuronal activity. specially under a single particular stimulation regime. What about synaptic plasticity? what about neuromodulation? etc etc
Biological Neurons have a much richer internal state and we don't know how compactly it can be computationally represented. blanket statements like "1 cortical neuron = 5-8 layer DNN" are unhelpful and an overinterpretation of the paper.
humor. AI is hopeless at it, it could read the whole corpus on theories of humor and still come up empty handed. It is the main tell that AI doesn't have phenomenological consciousness yet IMO
quick someone make a short story where the protag finds out the machines gained consciousness because it makes a banger joke and gets the whole gang laughing
I made a skill-md to aid with writing without letting the agent write slop your voice away. It supports deterministic mechanical changes (i.e. grammar and ortographic corrections) and broader changes like pacing and storylines. It is naturally very good at understanding structure even with a cheap model. I use sonnet
It can create a .md structure from a docx and export back as pdf or docx
It helped me find a lot of inconsistencies in my novel and all it does is point you where you can rewrite or add stuff to improve the quality of the narrative
https://t.co/hBnTcuvhEv
you mistake complexity for scale. the scale is absurd but the mechanisms are much more straightforware than analogical wetware. we simply turned up to 11 and it worked like a charm aka scaling laws. the entropy in our system is simply much lower.
source: I work in Ai Infra, not a larper.
@KairosFox@aran_nayebi learning as defined in ML is in fact an analogy as well, defined by minimizing a loss function. Living beings however don't have a single, static objective function. we are shaped by absurdly complex homeostatic drives and continuous interplay with the environment.
@cammakingminds "the truth" has become sort of a dogwhistle for neoplatonists at this point
like what are you even looking for, dude. Accept reality as it is and stop with the Sprachspiel
That's not enough either. We are a whole ass wetware man. there are hormones in the bloodstream also there are extremely complex macro and micro structures forming and reforming around neurons. The glia cells, astrocytes and tripartite synapses, ECM and perineuronal nets.
I am not saying we can't simulate it all, I am saying we are far from it. The "spark" might just be water indeed.
@w_guppy people who think ethics are not actual physical constraints are just inexperienced in life. guilt and regret will leave you wincing through life like a limp rat. Karma is straight up written in our DNA
you shall not murder