Consciousness is not computation

20 wyświetleń · 3 lat temu

Spend enough time in the tech world and you will sooner or later find that it is a common article of faith that computers will one day gain consciousness. With powerful enough computers and sophisticated enough AI, the reasoning goes, it is inevitable that computers will eventually become conscious just as we are. In fact, some are even bolder and claim that this isn’t just something that will happen off in the distant future, but that the age of sentient computers is upon us already. David Chalmers famously argued that we must be open to the idea that any feedback system — even one as simple as a thermostat — is conscious, even if in a limited way. Recently AI researcher Ilya Sutskever speculated that today’s large neural networks may be “slightly conscious.” And a few months later Google engineer Blake Lemoine was fired after going public with his concerns that the LaMDA language model is sentient.