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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by dist-epoch on Monday May 01, 2023 @12:32PM (#35775223)
> You're assuming that it will have "tasks"

?

Task: write a book about literature.

Task: defend this network against hackers

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:25PM (#35776137)
Yeh. This is quite likely some some cognitive illusion of how you think your own mind works.

Do you have any evidence that a "task" is something that is fundamental to an artificial consciousness?

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