AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it.

Sleerk@feddit.uk · 9 hours ago

AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it.

Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 5 hours ago

In neuroscience and philosophy, when people talk about consciousness, they’re typically referring to the fact of experience - that it feels like something to be. That experience has qualia.

Nowhere is it written that this is a requirement for general intelligence. It’s perfectly conceivable to imagine a system that’s more intelligent than any human but where it doesn’t feel like anything to be that system. It could even appear conscious without actually being so. Philosophical zombie, so to speak.