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Re:Emergent abilities of large language models by wafer_thin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:56AM (#35540791)
We know that the "consciousness" of the AI resides in a cluster that is "speaking" to thousands of clients at any given moment. So is there a single consciousness or multiple? It can pass any test and yet the consciousness question remains valid for this reason alone. It's truly alien to us and no one has good answers yet.
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Re:Emergent abilities of large language models by pulvinar on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:22AM (#35541310)
I expect we'll change our definition of "consciousness", as we did for the term "computer" after the 1940s. Up until then a computer was a person who did computations (with pencil and maybe an adding machine), so what humans could do limited what a computer could do.
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