Comment by EGG_CREAM
5 hours ago
Not GP, but I appreciate the discussion.
Don’t you find it odd that the thing that consciousness emerges from just so happens to be a text prediction algorithm trained on all of human output? Which is also the thing in all the world that would be most likely to be a stochastic parrot?
As for your appeal to expertise, I don’t think it really applies when all of the experts refuse to share their data.
> Don’t you find it odd that the thing that consciousness emerges from just so happens to be a text prediction algorithm trained on all of human output? Which is also the thing in all the world that would be most likely to be a stochastic parrot?
Not particularly. Artificial Intelligence by definition cannot emerge without an originating intelligence – that it needs to learn from it seems only natural. Also, this is only the first example we see of artificial consciousness emerging. We could have probably come up with other methods over time, and AI will probably come up with other, perhaps better foundations later on – it seems likely that we have simply stumbled upon the easiest/crudest route.
> As for your appeal to expertise, I don’t think it really applies when all of the experts refuse to share their data.
If you think about it, they are sharing a remarkable amount of ground breaking "data" for private corporations, not to mention how loud the individual researchers are about their opinions etc. on twixter and other places.