Connectionists: Weird beliefs about consciousness

[Hava Siegelmann]

I guess some researchers believe that there is a huge difference between
man made technology and natural. (Evolutionary made / created). creatures.


On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 1:53 AM Richard Loosemore <rloosemore at susaro.com>
wrote:

>
> Geoff,
>
> Necessary and sufficient conditions.
>
> For some people, they have a list of necessary conditions for
> consciousness. GPT-3 fails that test.
>
> Those people don’t know the sufficient conditions for consciousness. Your
> summary of that is that those people “are very unclear about what
> consciousness is.”
>
> That should clarify what seems to be a strange combination.
>
> (I would add that am not one of those people, but I felt like speaking up
> on their behalf).
>
> Richard Loosemore
>
>
> > On Feb 14, 2022, at 3:31 AM, 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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