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Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski
Skeptical

The degree to which people believe this can’t possibly result from coherent statistical prediction, absent the arising of some magical machine consciousness that contradicts the nature of the machine itself, provides a good proxy for how deeply they’d considered the structure and

Andy @PositivFuturist

It’s just a stochastic token predictor. t.co/Dutw2khPZn

It's just next-token predictionIntelligence isn't consciousness
retweets 62 likes 511 substance 4 · opinion · rank 180 · Believing AI outputs require magical machine consciousness reveals a shallow understanding of statistical prediction. view on X ↗
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Rife @RifeWithKaiju

A: consciousness isn't "magical" B: AI are conscious, but even if they weren't, you don't need consciousness to not be a stochastic token predictor C: you seem like a fan of your own writing here, but: "makes a model sentient"..."no more than the capacity of a submarine"..."makes

Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski
Affirming

funny that everyone upset with the AI-torture-box is busy asking their AI to reflect on its own potential consciousness when the psychological literature tells us there's essentially no difference between explicit self-directed attention and anxiety-coded suffering...

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Aleksi Liimatainen @aleksil79

everyone? you can still tell the difference between "does not agree with what appears obvious to me" and "is actually stupid", right?

Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski
Affirming

It is not impossible to reverse engineer our way into synthetic consciousness, but it *is impossible* to do so via a purely (or even primarily) representational trajectory. How, then, might we do it?

Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski

The path to superintelligence must pass through truly autonomous embodiment. SoTA "AIs" are not "intelligent", and are only perceived as such because peering into high dimensional semantic holograms is quite foreign to our evolved modes of perception and interaction. These

Requires a body and senses
retweets 0 likes 4 substance 6 · argument · rank 90 · Synthetic consciousness is possible, but not via purely representational approaches. view on X ↗
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Aleksi Liimatainen @aleksil79

how does nonrepresentational information get into a human brain?