No, we're beyond that. Black Box neural nets don't depend upon us understanding how they're igniting intelligenesis. Which is good, because we're almost certainly too dim to do so.
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Neural nets will never produce consciousness. Which means it almost certainly will never be smarter than a person.
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It’s not at all clear why this should be the case. What’s so special about the blood-and-goo instantiation of thought-architecture?
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Neural nets are just math. Consciousness requires specialized hardware.
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Replying to @Alrenous @smudgie_buggler and
If neural nets are conscious you could write the formula on a piece of paper and then the paper would be alive.
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This doesn’t follow, as far as I’m concerned. Transcribed software doesn’t compute any function any more than musical notation has pitch or rhythm.
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Replying to @smudgie_buggler @Alrenous and
Perfectly willing to entertain that neural nets themselves aren’t qualia-apt no matter how sophisticated (in fact this seems likely). But if I’m understanding you, you don’t think consciousness is capable of being virtualised by a Turing machine. Why?
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Because encoding is arbitrary. If one Turing machine is conscious, every Turing machine is conscious. And everything is a component of some Turing machine, so everything is multiple consciousnesses. In reality consciousness takes specific, expensive machinery.
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"[C]onsciousness takes specific, expensive machinery." -- This seems extremely evolutionarily improbable.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous and
... Not only does consciousness (as such) almost certainly come for free, but there's probably a discount on the comparatively dodgy comes-with-consciousness version of the cognitive systems it's associated with.
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current best guess is that yes, it comes for free, and no, it has no impact on the performance of cognitive systems whatsoever
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Epiphenomalism is supernatural. Pure ghost in the machine.
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Replying to @Alrenous @chaosprime and
Further, makes the failure of AI to fold laundry and pick fruit more mysterious instead of less.
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