Comment on AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?
peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoReally? I mean, it’s melodramatic, but if you went throughout time and asked writers and intellectuals if a machine could write poetry, solve mathmatical equations, and radicalize people effectively t enough to cause a minor mental health crisis, I think they’d be pretty surprised.
LLMs do expose something about intelligence, which is that much of what we recognize as intelligence and reason can be distilled from sufficiently large quantities of natural language. Not perfectly, but isn’t it just the slightest bit revealing?
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
There is a phenomenon called Emergence, in which something complex has properties or compartments that its parts don’t have on their own.
In programming, we can see that software displays properties or behaviors that its languages alone don’t have.
If an AI demonstrates true consciousness, a major change will occur in all branches, including law and philosophy.
peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Do you mean conventional software? Typically software doesn’t exhibit emergent properties and operates within the expected parameters. Machine learning and statistically driven software can produce novel results, but typically that is expected. They are designed to behave that way.