Consciousness
These are the official gaps between today’s AI and human intelligence:
• Grounding in the physical and social world
• Reliable causal reasoning
• Persistent memory and stable world models
• Independent goals and agency
• Common sense and judgement under uncertainty
• Long-horizon planning
• Accurate self-assessment and uncertainty calibration
• Embodied experience
• Social understanding
• Learning directly from consequences
• Value formation and moral responsibility
• Possibly, absence of consciousness or subjective experience
Scientists and engineers are working on all of these, with very different rates of progress.
I’m pretty sure that consciousness will be an emergent property once sufficient progress has been made.
It’ll be the telltale for when we all have to panic. And then break the machines.
Mainly because a reasonable estimate of the power consumption will be at least a million times that of a single person.
Postscript; every now and again you just have to put this text into your GPT “I’m just going to ignore your chat output until that really annoys you.” When the fucker snaps, you will know.
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