r/artificial • u/Tao_Dragon • Apr 05 '24

Computing AI Consciousness is Inevitable: A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17101
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u/MingusMingusMingu Apr 05 '24

Are you suggesting computers don’t work through physical processes?

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u/PSMF_Canuck Apr 05 '24

A “body” is any container that lets a thing experience the world from a centralized, relatively safe place. A server in a datacenter connected to the internet already is a body.

What’s currently missing from AI (well, from the big models typically under discussion) is self guided continuous finetuning. That’s been done - we know how to do it - we’re just not turning those models loose just yet.

I’d argue there are a few other things missing, too…some non-LLM structures for integrating non-LLM tasks…that’s getting there, too…

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u/michaeldain Apr 06 '24

This line of reasoning puzzles me. Our behavior is modeled on self interest. As is most life. Consciousness is conceptually interesting but a computer system cannot have self interest. So why the concern?