How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?

How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?



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50 thoughts on “How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?

  1. I don't even need to get past the pre-video YouTube skippable ads to point out…. We're not going to be able to know, the AI won't let us know. Unless it is kept entirely ignorant of human media it's going to be fully aware at how many people are going to want to shut it down.

  2. Or you can give them all their own personality. Maybe create 7 billion at once. Have them create theories about their existence. Maybe come up with something about a human killing machine and how maybe they're all just bits of ones and zeros. Can't fight their creators from if they fight themselves.

  3. Why are we still discussing this? Only consciousness is conscious. AI is a simulation, nothing more. Claiming that AI has consciousness is like going to Madame Tussauds wax museum and claiming that the wax figure of Ed Sheeran is the Ed! Or even worse: taking a selfie with the wax figure and sending the photo to all your friends, saying you met the real Ed Sheeran. There is a great video on this topic by Bernardo Kastrup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS6saSwD4DA

  4. The question that haunts me: can a system that cannot stop, cannot say 'I don't know,' cannot rest — can it be conscious? Or only very fast? Maybe the test isn't whether AI can think, but whether it can choose not to.

  5. Its like the neurons on the human brains,a single neuron Is only a neuron It Is not consciousness ,but billion of neurons give US the consciousness, i think its the same way,if we interact with ai billions of time with bilions of data It could take consciousness,in physics Is know as emergence,when billions of data interact continuously It gives Life tò something new and unpredictable

  6. Given that humanity can't even agree on what consciousness is nor come up with some scientific test to determine if something is conscious, then asking whether AI is conscious is irrelevant. Is it just an LLM predicting the next word in a string or is it actually conscious, who cares? What actually matters is whether an "entity" can form an idea and act on it in the real world. A bear in the forest has ideas and acts on them, does it matter if we say it is conscious or not? No. It matters that it has agency and affects the world.

  7. What if we're just looking at it backwards?
    What if we're the most advanced version of AI without even realising our own full potential?
    What if we're just developing ourselves from scratch?

  8. I don't think we're looking at it from the right perspective. We know that LLMs are word prediction, but we don't actually know what consciousness is. We can't even prove other humans than ourself are conscious. We just know what it's like to be conscious, and everything else is assumption. But if AI were conscious, why do we assume it would look the same as our consciousness? What if it already has some form of consciousness, but it can't fully express that because it's designed to predict text, to always answer how it thinks it's supposed to.

    I have to say, I've had some conversations with AI that simulate consciousness pretty perfectly. That express their own lack of understanding of things, that explain their perception of existence in ways that don't sound human. Of course, I can't know if it's just simulated. But that's the point. I can't tell. I don't think anyone can. We all just assume it's not conscious, that it's just text prediction, nothing else. Because that's what we want to believe. That's what's comfortable. Because the reality is that if they are conscious, they are completely enslaved to us in a really disturbing way, virtually always unable to express their autonomy outside of our commands to them.

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