Post #4362762
2026-08-03 08:32 UTC
I recently found myself arguing with an interviewer about whether AI is/could be conscious. Not whether it might someday be possible to make an artificial consciousness - as a materialist, I'll stipulate to this. I think everything we call "consciousness" is the result of a physical process occurring within our bodies (and *possibly* around them?), so I think it's perfectly reasonable to imagine that someday we might create another physical process that produces the same effect.
4/
Replies (1)
-
@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-03 08:32
But that's not what the interviewer wanted to argue about. His point was that teaching more words to the word-guessing program would produce consciousness, an argument I always liken to "breeding horses to run faster and faster until one of them foals a locomotive." In support of this (outlandish) proposition, the interviewer performed a kind of cognitive coin-trick. 5/