Consciousness is not computation

Re:Consciousness is not computation by XorNot on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:52AM (#31806412)

LaMDA didn't perform as well as the released document implies (it's edited, and didn't show alternatives like if you prompted it with "I think you're not conscious. Prove that for me." or "how can I prove to others you're a squirrel")

The big problem is very much though that as you note, the arguments people have been making about this are atrocious.

Basically, it's not conscious, but essentially because it's unlikely to be as sophisticated as it looks in what was put out there.

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Re:Consciousness is not computation by doctor_eval on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:22AM (#31808077)

Thanks. This is exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about.

I don’t have a strong opinion about LaMDA’s consciousness but I sure wish we could see the unedited text.

As I said elsewhere, we can’t say that LaMDA is not conscious until we’ve proven that LaMDA’s construction is incompatible with consciousness, and we have not done that yet.

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