Connectionists: Weird beliefs about consciousness

[Stephen José Hanson]

Seems glib..

I don't know what consciousness is either.. but I am sure the logs 
burning in my fireplace don't have it.


S

On 2/14/22 9:14 AM, Gary Marcus wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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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