AI Is Just Someone Else's Intelligence

Re:AI Is Just Someone Else's Intelligence by morkalork on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:10PM (#35817732)

Animals are conscious, yes? They may not be as intelligent as humans but they still perceive their environment, have internal drives/desires, make decisions, play, plan routes, solve mazes/puzzles, hunt, have some forms of language communication, some use tools, exploit their surroundings, learn new things and so on.

If one built an AGI that was at the intelligence level of say, a rat or mouse. How would one go about proving it had the same capacity for consciousness as that rat or mouse?

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Re:AI Is Just Someone Else's Intelligence by bheadmaster on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:57PM (#35822659)

Can we have certain knowledge whether or not they're conscious? - Unfortunately no. We can't compare what we cannot measure, and we haven't found any way to measure consciousness directly.

When AI passes all possible tests that could distinguish it from a rat, the question becomes whether or not consciousness is necessary for all those rat-like capabilities we tested for. And if not, then why rats have consciousness?

I personally don't like unfinished stories, so I believe it is necessary - that consciousness is just a side-effect of matter performing some complex computation. It wraps the theory up nicely with a little bow on the top.

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Re:AI Is Just Someone Else's Intelligence by r721 on Friday May 05, 2023 @01:41AM (#35825580)

>Animals are conscious, yes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness#Cambridge...

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