MassiveIndependence8 t1_irs6pkg wrote on October 10, 2022 at 5:07 PM

Reply to comment by Rumianti6 in Why does everyone assume that AI will be conscious? by Rumianti6

> It’s like saying birds can fly therefore cows can fly.

Nope, that’s false equivalence. It’s like saying birds can fly therefore it’s possible to make a machine that could fly.

Rumianti6 OP t1_irs8d0h wrote on October 10, 2022 at 5:18 PM

And you are misinterpreting my example it isn't literal. The point was to say that AI and life are fundamentally different. More accurately it is like saying you can make a machine fly by just giving it a bunch of legs on top of each other and saying that is will fly eventually.

I already know you are not going to interpret what I'm saying correctly so just give me the next brain dead argument.

thevictater t1_irt5bot wrote on October 10, 2022 at 9:02 PM

Yeah but different how?? You're putting consciousness on a pedestal in one breath and saying we don't understand it in the next. So which is it? By your logic it is dumb to assume either way.

But most people think AI can be conscious because it seems very possible that consciousness is just a product of a neural network of a certain size. Seems fair to me. Even still, no one can say with absolute certainty, so there's not much point in arguing about it or calling anything dumb.