kneedeepco t1_irubfki wrote on October 11, 2022 at 2:23 AM

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

Who says it was "random mutations"? It could be a mere benchmark in evolution and any evolving entity, including an AI, will reach that point.

NightmareOmega t1_irukitl wrote on October 11, 2022 at 3:37 AM

If any sufficiently complex system resulted in consciousness we would already see random occurrences popping up across varying super computers, many of which possess the required FLOPS. Also AI don't evolve, they're designed.

michaelhoney t1_irvml4y wrote on October 11, 2022 at 11:45 AM

Being really fast is not the same as being sufficiently complex, though. “Complex, in the right way” is important.

FjordTV t1_irw1wko wrote on October 11, 2022 at 1:57 PM

Yup.

I can't remember the numbers right now, but as the size of a neural net starts to surpass that of the human brain it's theorized that it's more and more likely to give rise to consciousness. I think GPT-4 is supposed to get us pretty close, if not over the threshold.

NightmareOmega t1_irw8u0c wrote on October 11, 2022 at 2:47 PM

No argument there. But where does the leap from "we have a box which could arguably hold a consciousness" to "any sufficiently complex box will spawn consciousness" come from? I'm not saying it's impossible but where is the supporting evidence?

michaelhoney t1_irzeinc wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:22 AM

Fair point: conscious things not made of evolved meat are still hypothetical, as a far as we know. We don’t yet know what the secret sauce is.