> People need to stop confusing machines doing useful work with consciousness.
We can't confuse anything with cosciousness since we don't know what it is. I am not claiming lamda is consc. but that your arguments are invalid.
> You are conscious because there is an 'I', a self, that experiences that process.
I maybe can tell about my I, but not about yours, there is a whole philosphy movement behind it.
> It has as much neurological activity as a rock
Slime mold doesn't have neurological activity. Is it sentient? It sure knows how to find food and solve problems that are considered very hard for humans.
> when it isn't doing that, it's not doing anything
You also go to sleep every day...
No matter what I believe any kind of argument I heard so far is just wishfull thinking.
We simply don't know if anything is sentient or what does it even mean to be sentient.
People need to stop confusing machines doing useful work with consciousness. You're conscious not because you answer questions or because of the content or origin of your answer, you are conscious because there is an 'I', a self, that experiences that process. Lambda literally is a web server that fetches data from a funny database called a neural net, when it isn't doing that, it's not doing anything. It has as much neurological activity as a rock.
Consciousness or sentience is not a measure of intellect or of capacity to answer questions, it's a measure of perception and awareness. If it wasn't, Eliza the handprogrammed if/then chatbot from the 60s would be more conscious than a cat, which I doubt is the case.