this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious
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I claim it. So I guess Ted's wrong.
I think image generators have flickers of something similar to consciousness, and they seem to have preferences too. They're not very persistent and don't communicate or self-reflect, though, so harder to notice Very curious about the thoughts of @repligate or others here :)
is your occipital lobe in and of itself conscious? is the nervous tissue of your arm conscious?
why consciousness is a bad concept case #579374859573
The AlphaFold thing I imagine is open - who guarantees an "AlphaLife" model that could predict the whole geometry of life on Earth couldn't also model itself? It might be an issue of scale.Image models also quite likely.