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Re:People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners by rich_sasha on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:00AM (#34833218)
Your argument boils down to (1) ChatGPT is not AGI - which I agree with, and (2) AI merely parrots what conscious beings say, without being conscious.

But (2) is self-referential. AI isn't conscious because it isn't conscious. It is just

> an algorithmic hat trick compared to what you would refer to as consciousness

If an AI equal in intelligence and expressiveness to humans emerges, how do we think about its consciousness, relative to humans?

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Re:People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners by mysecretaccount on Friday February 17, 2023 @05:48PM (#34841685)
> If an AI equal in intelligence and expressiveness to humans emerges, how do we think about its consciousness, relative to humans?

The same way we think of human intelligence, right? I cannot prove that you are conscious any more than I can prove that a machine is.

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