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michaelhoney t1_irvml4y wrote

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

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

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FjordTV t1_irw1wko wrote

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.

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NightmareOmega t1_irw8u0c wrote

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?

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michaelhoney t1_irzeinc wrote

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.

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