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Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes by plutonorm on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:25PM (#23275921)
What makes you think the pile of if-else statements isn't conscious?
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Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes by 101404 on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:18PM (#23278594)
Because it's a pile of if-else statements shuffled until it was able to perform a single specialized thing. Any housefly would by a thousand times as "conscious".
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Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes by bobly_today on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:51PM (#23278767)
What makes you so certain a house fly doesn’t have a form of rudimentary consciousness? It might be a spectrum.
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Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes by collyw on Saturday May 23, 2020 @07:01AM (#23281923)
I assume that a housefly does have a basic form of consciousness. It's not going to write Shakespeare but it probably wants to mate. (I know people who's life goals don't appear to extend much further).
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Re:Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes by 101404 on Saturday May 23, 2020 @03:50AM (#23280874)
How about a computer? It has if else statements too.
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