"Make him obsessed with math. Make him obsessed with computers. Then build a computer that solves every math problem, and force him to sit on the beach getting drunk."
Can you give some examples of your prompts?
I've been trying to get your Backplane working, but so far I just get insane slop. It is more effort to explain to the ai that the schematic has overlapping symbols and wrong connections than it is for me to fix it myself. Just trying to learn how you use it.
Arguing that "consciousness arises from a computational substrate, and since AI models are computation, they are likely conscious," is as meaningless as arguing that "living creatures are made of atoms, and since this rock is made of atoms, it is likely alive."
Everything is computation. Sometimes incredibly sophisticated computation, like a chess engine, AlphaGo, google3, or the Linux kernel. That does not make it conscious. A rock being made of atoms does not confer it any of the properties we associate with living things, also made of atoms. Likewise a static input-output program that has *none* of the properties we associate with conscious beings (e.g. information integration, interoception, temporal binding, embodiment, etc.) has no more reason to be presumed conscious than a rock has to be presumed alive.
Humanity has not yet created a conscious computer program, and there are no signs we are close to doing so. When we get close, the case for machine consciousness will be backed by evidence and corroborated by consciousness science (which is a thing), not by evidence-free wishful thinking and cargo culting.
My dad used to completely lose interest in a movie if something stupidly unbelievable happened in it. But understand, this meant that if he was watching a werewolf movie and a character went to the post office on Sunday when they’re closed, he’s stop watching.
Question for everyone :
Are you pro-intelligence or anti-intelligence ?
Do you think more intelligence in the world is intrinsically good ?
Or do you think more intelligence is intrinsically dangerous ?
AI amplifies human intelligence.
It makes PEOPLE smarter and more effective.
It's like search engines, libraries, education, literacy, language: it makes PEOPLE smarter and more empowered.
If you want intelligence (artificial or natural) to be under control of a few companies or governments, you are a neo-obscurantist or a neo-feudalist.