This prompts me to propose, with tongue slightly in cheek, the *Weak
Turing Test*, which consists of a remote observer trying to distinguish
between a computer and Donald Trump. It doesn’t require any deep
analysis on the part of the computer, just a database of grievances.
—Barry
On 20 Jun 2022, at 11:45, glen wrote:
"None of this has anything to do with artificial consciousness, of
course. “I don’t anthropomorphize,” Chowdhery said bluntly.
“We are simply predicting language.” Artificial consciousness is a
remote dream that remains firmly entrenched in science fiction,
because we have no idea what human consciousness is; there is no
functioning falsifiable thesis of consciousness, just a bunch of vague
notions. And if there is no way to test for consciousness, there is no
way to program it. You can ask an algorithm to do only what you tell
it to do. All that we can come up with to compare machines with humans
are little games, such as Turing’s imitation game, that ultimately
prove nothing."
What amazes me is that few take the logical step of suggesting that
there is no such thing as consciousness. We're all "simply predicting
language." The only difference between an animal and a language
predicting chatbot is that we *also* "simply predict" actions in 4D
spacetime. Any disconnect between the serial prediction of tokens from
the (not-so-serial) prediction of all actions is that dimension
reduction.
On 6/20/22 08:15, Marcus Daniels wrote:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/
<https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/>
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