NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoAnthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious beingwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down11cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1197arrow-down1external-linkAnthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious beingwww.telegraph.co.ukNightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square33linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareBillyClark@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoThe closer AI comes to our level of consciousness, the more our level of consciousness is being revealed as lame in the first place.
minus-squareCrimeIsLegalNow@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoPeter Watts’s Blindsight novel is genuinely the only scifi book I’ve read in a decade that made me challenge my own beliefs on humanity’s place in the universe by asking the simple question of “Is consciousness actually a survival trait?”
The closer AI comes to our level of consciousness, the more our level of consciousness is being revealed as lame in the first place.
Peter Watts’s Blindsight novel is genuinely the only scifi book I’ve read in a decade that made me challenge my own beliefs on humanity’s place in the universe by asking the simple question of “Is consciousness actually a survival trait?”