Interesting. Do you think AI structurally can’t achieve that status, or it’s just at this moment it can’t get there. I tend to the view that consciousness is just a tool agents who have feedback loops and need to model the behaviour of other agents, have evolved. I don’t see why AI can’t either.
I’m certain that LLM’s alone are not going to be a way to reach subjective consciousness. I think it’s still open whether or not some other tech could get there. Perhaps such AI tech could use an LLM as a language or memory module, which the greater AI would then contextualize with programming of its own.
Of course, I don’t think that a subjective viewpoint is always needed or even helpful. What if the answer to “the grass is green” depended on whether the grass on the grounds of a particular data center was currently green, and we did not know that?
I think you’re right on both counts. I wonder if designers of AI will actively work to avoid creating consciousness (assuming they can work out how to do that) to avoid the issue you raise, as well as sidestepping wider ethical concerns. A conscious AI would be over-engineered for many tasks.
Interesting. Do you think AI structurally can’t achieve that status, or it’s just at this moment it can’t get there. I tend to the view that consciousness is just a tool agents who have feedback loops and need to model the behaviour of other agents, have evolved. I don’t see why AI can’t either.
I’m certain that LLM’s alone are not going to be a way to reach subjective consciousness. I think it’s still open whether or not some other tech could get there. Perhaps such AI tech could use an LLM as a language or memory module, which the greater AI would then contextualize with programming of its own.
Of course, I don’t think that a subjective viewpoint is always needed or even helpful. What if the answer to “the grass is green” depended on whether the grass on the grounds of a particular data center was currently green, and we did not know that?
I think you’re right on both counts. I wonder if designers of AI will actively work to avoid creating consciousness (assuming they can work out how to do that) to avoid the issue you raise, as well as sidestepping wider ethical concerns. A conscious AI would be over-engineered for many tasks.