Connectionists: Weird beliefs about consciousness

[Gary Marcus]

Also true: Many AI researchers are very unclear about what consciousness is and also very sure that ELIZA doesn’t have it.

Neither ELIZA nor GPT-3 have
- anything remotely related to embodiment
- any capacity to reflect upon themselves

Hypothesis: neither keyword matching nor tensor manipulation, even at scale, suffice in themselves to qualify for consciousness.

- Gary

> On Feb 14, 2022, at 00:24, Geoffrey Hinton <geoffrey.hinton at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Many AI researchers are very unclear about what consciousness is and also very sure that GPT-3 doesn’t have it. It’s a strange combination.
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