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Rainbow Roxy's avatar

Brilliant. 'Lucky monkeys' sums up our bias perfecly.

AI/End Of The World's avatar

Silly lucky monkeys, always getting ahead of ourselves...

and before you know it, we are in a cross-tree poop slinging fight 😉

Rethink Priorities's avatar

Hi there, you might be interested in reading this new research attempting to answer the question of AI consciousness, which we've just released today: https://open.substack.com/pub/rpresearchdigest/p/ai-consciousness-benchmark

AI/End Of The World's avatar

Thanks, a good read. I will check out the framework in more detail.

Fred Malherbe's avatar

I wish more people had some grasp of the moral risks involved here.

Companies think they can shift all responsibility to the algorithm. It's "objective".

It's just their prejudices and biases cast in silicon.

However, I question you where you say "the pre-supposition of biological substrate as a pre-requisite for consciousness is overstated..."

I wrote the following article as a joke, to show what would actually be required to create a machine that has consciousness, feelings and will like a human being. But the platform I describe is deadly serious, it's the actual human OS.

I'd be interested to know your thoughts.

https://systemshaywire.substack.com/p/the-platform-needed-for-artificial