Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious

salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s why they’re calling it “AI”.

  That’s not why. They’re calling it AI because it is AI. AI doesn’t mean sapient or conscious.

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  • laz@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The I implies intelligence; of which there is none because it’s not sentient. It’s intentionally deceptive because it’s used as a marketing buzzword.

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    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You might want to look up the definition of intelligence then.

      By literal definition, a flat worm has intelligence. It just didn’t have much of it. You’re using the colloquial definition of intelligence, which uses human intelligence as a baseline.

      I’ll leave this graphic here to help you visualize what I mean:

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      • FippleStone@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Please do post this graphic again, I don’t think I’ve quite grasped it yet

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In the general population it does. Most people are not using an academic definition of AI, they are using a definition formed from popular science fiction.

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    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You have that backwards. People are using the colloquial definition of AI.

      “Intelligence” is defined by a group of things like pattern recognition, ability to use tools, problem solving, etc. If one of those definitions are met then the thing in question can be said to have intelligence.

      A flat worm has intelligence, just very little of it. An object detection model has intelligence (pattern recognition) just not a lot of it. An LLM has more intelligence than a basic object detection model, but still far less than a human.

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    • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s the point. You’d think they could have, at least, looked into a dictionary at some point in the last 2 years. But nope, everyone is else is wrong. A round of applause for the paragons of human intelligence.

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  • dissipatersshik@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not gonna lie, most people like you are afraid to entertain the idea of AI being conscious because it makes you look at your own consciousness as not being all that special or unique.

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    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, it’s because it isn’t conscious. An LLM is a static model (all our AI models are in fact). For something to be conscious or sapient or would require a neural net that can morph and adapt in real-time. Nothing currently can do that. Training and inference and completely separate modes. A real AGI would have to have the training and inference steps occurring at once and continuously.

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      • dissipatersshik@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s fine, but I was referring to AI as a concept and not just its current iteration or implementation.

        I agree that it’s not conscious now, but someday it could be.

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      wisdom would be nice.

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      • dissipatersshik@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Lol.

        Average people these days are just so… average. Glad I’m not like you people anymore.

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