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Re:Neural nets are not “slightly conscious,” and AI PR can d... by pmoriarty on Sunday February 20, 2022 @06:49PM (#30410405)
Your laptop does not know anything, any more than your thermostat knows when it's hot or a toaster knows when your toast is ready.

Furthermore, one can argue that consciousness is a requirement for knowledge.

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Re:Neural nets are not “slightly conscious,” and AI PR can d... by chasing on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:07PM (#30410508)
You’re wading into epistemology, a topic that’s been discussed and debated for millennia. Which maybe relates to my larger point that the concept of “consciousness” quickly gets out of hand to the point where it seems to me a little silly to say neural nets are “slightly conscious.”
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