tomie (@tomieinlove) · AI Consciousness Opinions

It’s really hard to argue AI models are conscious without inadvertently arguing that things like ant colonies or human societies are also conscious.

Then thermostats would count

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vivian @jazzloaf Sep 17

the ant colony and human society examples are famous arguments from this guy at uc riverside faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/Schw…

funplings @funplings Sep 17

maybe they are

Plastic Soldier @PlastiqSoldier Sep 17

Isn't that just double-counting? Each ant, AI, and human has some level of consciousness, but the collective doesn't have any magic beyond the total.

pedantic uncertaintist duck @mathtick Sep 17

This is obvious and as an entymologist who studies ents and constantly talks with them I have been saying it for a long time. Ents are real but they are also stupid but the swarm know things.

tomie @tomieinlove Oct 2

Uncertain

The middle ground is that AI models are conscious but in an exotic alien way that makes it pretty inconsequential we're killing billions of them daily

Consciousness comes in degrees Ending an instance is death

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saphir bleu @saphirbijoux Oct 3

how many human cells in one person, die each day

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