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  • Well no one can prove they have a mind to anyone other than themselves.

    And to extend that, there’s obviously a way for electrical information processing to give rise to consciousness. And no one knows how that could be possible.

    Meaning something like a true, alien AI would probably conclude that we are not conscious and instead are just very intelligent meat computers.

    So, while there’s no reason to believe that current AI models could result in consciousness, no one can prove the opposite either.

    I think the argument currently boils down to, “we understand how AI models work, but we don’t understand how our minds work. Therefore, ???, and so no consciousness for AI”
















  • It can generate simple stuff accurately quite often. You just have to keep in mind that it could be dead wrong and you have to test/verify what it says.

    Sonetimes I feel like a few lines of code should be doable in one line using a specific technique, so I ask it to do that and see what it does. I don’t just take what it says and use it, I see how it tried to solve it and then check it. For example by looking up if the method it used exists and reading the doc for that method.

    Exact same as what I would do if I saw someone on stack overflow or reddit recommending something.