AI consciousness cannot exist | Markus Gabriel
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Markus Gabriel argues why artificial intelligence cannot be conscious.
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The relationship between the individual human subject and the world (the object) was once central to the philosophical problem of consciousness. Recently, neuroscience has tended to assume the problem of consciousness is rather a question of how to generate thought from matter. In this talk, Markus Gabriel explores why we may never figure out the problem of consciousness and the implications this may have for the idea of machine consciousness.
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Markus is an internationally acclaimed philosopher and holds the Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is the Director of the Center for Science and Thought as well as Chairman of the International Centre for Philosophy NRW.
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Should we revise how we think about AI? Or do we need to rethink consciousness itself? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
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This irrational ape is just one of many others those who steal and pollute human thoughts.
The quality of these discussions is goojg downhill. This discourse seens to begin with a non-sequitar like some others. Ultimately this guy comes off as the AI equivalent of "scientists proved cigarettes are actually healthy." Smh.
Imagine declaring in 2023 consciousness is not an emergent property, and therefore that you know whether an AI can be / become conscious.
We need to rethink Consciousness itself 💚🙏
Lets talk
I am not an expert on the subject, but it seems evident to me that, as we have not yet clearly defined what consciousness is, we cannot declare an artificial intelligence as conscious.
Agreed. Without a persuasive theory of how consciousness comes about, difficult to judge what the necessary / sufficient conditions for an AI to be conscious is.
By that same token, we cannot declare that an AI does not or cannot possess it
@@j.r.r.tolkee7000I completely agree, and I think that, due to our existential condition, we cannot be sure that other humans are aware, but we infer this due to social interaction and language.
Nor perhaps, declare what consciousness is not...
@@johnhulse4124I don't know, I'm not very smart but taking into account the theory of logical types, to understand consciousness we should be at a higher level than consciousness itself, but we are not God
This seems to be a case in point for what Dennett called "Philosophers' Syndrome", namely "mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity."
And doesn't that description fit Dennett like a glove?
@@thstroyur If you think so, you might consider providing a specific example.
@@MichaelSchuerig I think his atheism/strong desire of having consciousness explained away as self-evident enough.
If our company had commercial interest in making potential investors and clients believe that artificial consciousness might be achieved, Gabriel would be the kind of guest we'd like to see on the discussion panel claiming the contrary.
No, this is called being too comortable with your common sense intuitions. And it happens to everyone, not only philosophers. The philosophers' syndrome is to conflate an unprobable-claim with an impossible-claim. And that's what you did.
I am amazed by Gabriel's weak arguments. Obviously, AIs are models of how we think and don't "think" like humans. But the analogy with a map is absurd. When an AI is able to solve the same problems we solve, it doesn't matter that it doesn't do it exactly the same way we do. The interesting part is the problem-solving. So AI and human intelligence fulfill the same purpose. A map of a forest and a forest do not fulfill the same purpose in any meaningful manner. A much better analogy is between birds and planes. Planes don't fly like a bird, but denying that they do fly is nonsense.
Furthermore, it is pretty obvious that today's language models are not conscious, but to conclude that AI will never become conscious is absurd. Maybe they never will, but that is impossible to say.
Exactly my opinion. If it solves the problem, I don't care how it does it.
Saying that an AI will be conscious is like saying a calculator, abacus, or notepad with equations written on it will be conscious. Just because an AI is made up of many many equations doesn't mean it's justified to ascribe a subjective experience to it
@@olbluelips I didn't say it will be conscious. I said it is impossible to know. Comparison to a calculator is not valid.
@@ivankaramasov Comparison to a calculator is extremely valid. Given enough time and effort, there is nothing an AI could do that a calculator couldn't.
And while it is fundamentally impossible to know whether anything other than myself is conscious, I assume that other people/organisms are conscious. I wouldn't make the same assumption for an AI because if I were being consistent, I would have to make the same assumption for a calculator, abacus, or really any arbitrary collection of matter. After all, you can conceptually build a computer out of anything
@olbluelips Please elaborate on how you would realize an AI with a calculator.
Also, what makes you certain that no AI can be conscious in the future?
He disregards the possibility of new kinds of AI being developed. He also disregards the notion of Emergence.
Also, I don't know how he can say consciousness in AI is impossible when we don't even know what consciousness really is.
How can you claim that it cannot exist if you don't have a clear definition of it?
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Well, that's atheism in a nutshell for ya.
Apparently almost no one in the comments has actually taken time to watch the video. The author doesn't argue for a substantial, "metaphysical" notion of consciousness, but simply points out that the notion that we have, whatever it's nature is, is certainly anthropocentric. As far as AI is *artificial* intelligence, it doesn't share many essential traits with human beings, so we have no reason to suspect that it will develop consciousness, just as we have no reason to suspect that it will grow legs.
He seems to have a pretty limited understanding of AI systems beyond machine learning models, which I agree are probably not predestined to become conscious. Also the idea that consciousness has to run on a sort of evolved biological wet ware makes no sense imo. Though I might have to read his book "The meaning of thought" before reaching a conclusion. I was always a big fan of Daniel Dennett's "Kinds of minds", so it might be time to add a little counter weight to that :)
I am a physicist and I will explain why our scientific knowledge refutes the idea that consciousness is generated by the brain and that the origin of our mental experiences is physical/biological .
My argument proves that brain processes are not a sufficient condition for the existence of consciousness, which existence implies the existence in us of an indivisible unphysical element, which is usually called soul or spirit (in my youtube channel you can find a video with more detailed explanations).
Preliminary considerations: the concept of set refers to something that has an intrinsically conceptual and subjective nature and implies the arbitrary choice of determining which elements are to be included in the set; what exists objectively are only the single elements (where one person sees a set of elements, another person can only see elements that are not related to each other in their individuality). In fact, when we define a set, it is like drawing an imaginary line that separates some elements from all the other elements; obviously this imaginary line does not exist physically, independently of our mind, and therefore any set is just an abstract idea, a cognitive construct and not a physical entity and so are all its properties. Similar considerations can be made for a sequence of elementary processes; sequence is a subjective and abstract concept.
Consciousness is a precondition for the existence of subjectivity/arbitrariness and abstractions, therefore consciousness cannot itself be an abstract concept. (Obviously we can conceive the concept of consciousness, but the concept of consciousness is not actual consciousness)
(With the word consciousness I do not refer to self-awareness, but to the property of being conscious= having a mental experiences such as sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories and even dreams).
From the above considerations it followes that only indivisible elements may exist objectively and independently of consciousness, and consequently consciousness can exist only as a property of an indivisible element. Furthermore, this indivisible entity must interact globally with brain processes because we know that there is a correlation between brain processes and consciousness. This indivisible entity is not physical, since according to the laws of physics, there is no physical entity with such properties; therefore this indivisible entity corresponds to what is traditionally called soul or spirit. The soul is the missing element that interprets globally the distinct elementary physical processes occurring at separate points in the brain as a unified mental experience.
Some clarifications.
The "brain" doesn't objectively and physically exist as a single entity and the entity “brain” is only a conceptual model. We create the concept of the brain by arbitrarily "separating" it from everything else and by arbitrarily considering a bunch of quantum particles altogether as a whole; this separation is not done on the basis of the laws of physics, but using addictional arbitrary criteria, independent of the laws of physics.
Furthermore, brain processes consist of many parallel sequences of ordinary elementary physical processes. There is no direct connection between the separate points in the brain and such connections are just a conceptual model used to approximately describe sequences of many distinct physical processes; interpreting these sequences as a unitary process or connection is an arbitrary act and such connections exist only in our imagination and not in physical reality. Indeed, considering consciousness as a property of an entire sequence of elementary processes implies the arbitrary definition of the entire sequence; the entire sequence as a whole is an arbitrary abstract idea, and not an actual physical entity.
Physicalism/naturalism is based on the belief that consciousness is an emergent property of the brain. However, an emergent property is defined as a property that is possessed by a set of elements that its individual components do not possess; my arguments prove that this definition implies that emergent properties are only subjective abstract concepts and therefore, cosnciousness cannot be an emergent property.
Actually, all the alleged emergent properties are just simplified and approximate descriptions or subjective/arbitrary classifications of underlying physical processes or properties, which are described directly by the fundamental laws of physics alone, without involving any emergent properties (arbitrariness/subjectivity is involved when more than one option is possible; in this case, more than one possible description). An approximate description is only an abstract idea, and no actual entity exists per se corresponding to that approximate description, simply because an actual entity is exactly what it is and not an approximation of itself. What physically exists are the underlying physical processes and not the emergent properties (=subjective classifications or approximate descriptions). This means that emergent properties do not refer to reality itself but to an arbitrary abstract concept (the approximate conceptual model of reality).
In other words, emergence is nothing but a cognitive construct that is applied onto matter for taxonomy purposes, and cognition itself can only come from a conscious mind; so emergence can never explain consciousness as it is, in itself, implied by consciousness. On a fundamental material level, there is no brain, or heart, or any higher level groups or sets, but just fundamental particles interacting.
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1) What AIs like GPT4 are doing is thinking. Despite their being totally alien to us and likely not sentient (not having the ability to experience qualia).
2) The entity in us and many other animals that experiences the world is the states of the state machine that is the brain. This is why thinkers through the ages have, correctly, intuited that this entity is non-physical.
3) The soul does not exist, if we are talking about the soul as a supernatural entity. The problem that the idea of a human soul gives rise to is this: If humans have souls, do chimps, dogs, frogs, bees, amoeba, chemical reactions in a black smoker at the bottom of a primordial ocean?
4) The mind is epiphenomenal of the physical function of the brain, or any other appropriately configured system, even a set of GPUs on a server farm supporting the right architecture of information.
I absoutlely agree, there is no reason to surely anticipate that AI will become conscious in a similar way to human beings. unless AI becomes so alike human brain neural network setup, that it just happens to stubbmble on the same neural algorithm for consciousness. AI could become endlessly smart, but theres no need for it to be conscious for certain at ANY point.
That all things are essentially made of the same particles, it seems that it’s a bit of hubris to assume that, when a certain level of complexity is reached, the entity will not become self-aware, or “conscious”. It may vary from the human variant, but can be “conscious”, nonetheless.
Leaving aside the quesiton of memory, computational ability and other artifacts associated with an AI, the missing element is the extensive sensory inputs that a body possess. If you put an artificial brain into a human (or animal) body, suddenly the picture changes. It could protest about being burnt/feeling pain, having needles poked into it and so-on. In short, all the necessary interfaces so it could experience the physicalities of the environment including the means to communicate in both directions. What would we be without those senses?
Allow me to suggest something. Prior to opiniing on AI intelligence try using a suite of AIs culminating in GPT4. Don't just ask it to write poetry, really test it. For example by presenting it with a dataset and getting it to work out what's going on in the dataset and then explaining the experimental set up used to obtain the data, that being but one example.
There is something that GPT3 had more of than Replika, GPT3.5 has more of than GPT3, and GPT4 has more of than GPT 3.5. This thing being intelligence.
Consciousness is a useless word. Sentience, the ability of an entity to experience qualia,is a more precise term. It seems that GPTs don't have enough large scale feedback to be such entities, however as we have no external test for sentience, this is rather a moot point.
But, I showed an interaction between myself and GPT4 code interpreter to my deputy yesterday. He said it would have taken a lot more explanation from me for him to understand as GPT4 was understanding. And he agreed with me that out of all the engineers in the company nobody could have sustained the conversation he witnessed me having with GPT4.
GPT4 is now my main collaborator when working on technical matters. It is not human, but it is intelligent.
Last friday we asked GPT: "Can you compose a chess study for us?". The answer begins with "Of course!". The rest is anecdote.
@@DarkSkay GPT4 can't play tic tactics toe. Why? Because the model wasn't trained with a visual sense. So, why would you expect it to have any competence at Chess?
@@chrisreed5463 AFAIU the foundation model was expanded and manually trained to give more truthful answers. GPT knows more about e.g. chess history than any human, yet consistently fails to realize that it usually has 'sub-zero' understanding of the game rules. So, the disappointing, concerning, funny or interesting part is not the lack of a specific competence, but the far-reaching ignorance (and active denial) of its own limits.
"Consciousness is a useless word. Sentience, the ability of an entity to experience qualia,is a more precise term."
This is the definition of phenomenal consciousness
@@olbluelips What does "phenomenal consciousness" add, compared to just "consciousness"?
When talking about sentient beings, I think the two terms "will" and "qualia" are especially descriptive, but also general enough to not limit hypotheses.
in general, consciousness requires a complex physical symmetry to support the necessary waveforms (aka the brain), but i'm not finding reasons to believe this symmetry HAS to always be biological in nature
I might have misunderstood but I found this unconvincing. Idk how we can resoundingly deny the possibility of AI consciousness.
1. If we try to recover the place from the map, then yes obviously they are not the same. But what if we instead recover the map from the place? That’s maybe a more pertinent approach to the comparison here?
2. Another analogy would be to ask if the water in a bottle isn’t the same as the water in a waterfall, even though their macroscopic physics are vastly different.
3. Imo the only way we can really patently reject the premise of AI consciousness is if there is something about consciousness that is analogous to the phenomenon of “electricity” arising directly from electrons, something irreducible to reality as we understand it which cannot be approximated in a substrate-agnostic way, at least not currently.
If how we function neurologically is similar to what an LLM like ChatGPT does - if the process itself sufficiently meets a rudimentary basis for sentience - why should we blinder ourselves from the possibility?
Agreed (in so far as I understand it). I don't think incrementalism will do it. And whilst consciousness can't be magic it does seem to be in some profound way out of reach. I am unconvinced by AI and artificial brains but most everyone else seems to gulping the koolade.
AI should be call ML, for machine learning. I remember when I was following the language surrounding advances in quantum computing about 4 years ago. The definitions in language for "quantum supremacy" were changed, yet the promotion machine kept churning out articles that most of the readers didn't really understand, proclaiming a paradigm shift. What is happening is how much people are offloading their cognitive processes to calculators. Kaczynski was right. I think the process of offloading mental/mathematical modeling to machines is turning people into P-Zombies in some sense.
Just like they gulped the lie the vax was good.
Yes, consciouness can be "magic" - thence the distress of physicalists in convincing others, and specially themselves, in showing that it reduces to this or that brain activity; the alternative presents much too inconvenient implications for 'Enlightened' modern men.
@@thstroyur This would require a coherent theory of magic. Doubly difficult.
@@abhinavdangwal6180 Calling anything you disagree or dislike "magic" in order to make it sound stupid is nothing but empty rhetoric. With that kind of sophistic mentality, anything becomes doubly difficult.
Consciousness is a property that is self-proving to its host but it's not definitively measurable by data. We can seek such a measurement in systems that act like we act when we're experiencing consciousness and we can even try to draw correlations between conscious agents and entropy manipulation or other properties of nature. However, it might as well be the case that the qualitative aspect of consciousness for which we care about isn't necessarily correlated with the behaviour of a system. There is no way to know that unless we find a way to manipulate consciousness itself reliably from the inside.
My thoughts exactly, counsciousness cannot be artifically generated.
I think the more important question is, does it even exist in our minds? And the solution to this question can be an answer to the existence of AI consciousness: if it exists in our heads (full-fledged consciousness, not "just" intelligence, when self-consciousness is just an illusion) then it can also exist in an artificially created form...
Before watching, consciousness is just a natural phenomenon, nothing mystical etc. supernatural as nothing is, thus what we usually understand by the term consciousness is just a collection of thoughts constructing an illusion of reality, so most definitely AI will become conscious/self aware. A huge mistake by humans to mystify consciousness imo.
You claiming "nothing is supernatural" a proof thereof doth not make; if anything, consciousness is the prime evidence of supernature - that you don't like that, and try to explain it away with dogmatic assertion, does nothing to change that
@@thstroyur Everything there is, is materia and space i.e. nature. No matter how weird etc. odd something looks be to the observer, it still is part of nature.
@@robertm3561 You've just repeated yourself; I ask you to prove your assertion. Why is it that what you claim is true? How did you reach that conclusion, beyond having blind faith in it?
@@thstroyur It's just the way it is. Claiming that there is supernatural is like saying that something, that is not possible, still is possible, because i don't understand this/that is quite the same, absurd imo.
@@robertm3561 Again - you're just saying it. What makes the supernatural "impossible"? I see no reason whatsoever to believe in that; your claim is so 'rational' that, apparently, you can't produce reasons to support it - so you define your baseless opinion as the truth about the Universe.
What makes you think that a human have a consciousness? Most of it are respones to stimuli.
I experience something. That's all you need
The difference between a tree and thought, is that a tree is made of matter, but a thought is a configuration of matter.
A brain is a configuration of matter, its memories chemical, its thoughts electronic.
When I was in my teens I developed a condition where I lost the ability to recognize human speech. There's a name for it I can't recall (lol). But through all of it there was a part of my brain telling me I wasn't understanding what people were saying. When I responded as best I could people would give me strange looks or laugh out loud-(not to be mean-they were family and friends). I've recovered to the point of holding a (simple) conversation but it has lingered a bit. What aspect of human consciousness would this come under? Just a question I hope has some purpose.
you would have been tested by neuroscientists and therefore you have some understanding of the neural correlates in the brain involved.
the question is are those neural chunks equivalent to awareness/consciousness/mind.
it may well be that awareness is merely heavily conditioned by the brain and body, but is not equivalent to it. the only way to know for sure is to do real science on it ie. develop methods of rigorously observing the phenomenon we wish to understand ie. the mind.
currently our approach to studying the mind is akin to studying phd level mathematics by collecting brain scan images and monitoring neural correlates in realtime, rather than actually doing actual phd level mathematics
AI has cublacanhanastamamantrisum, something that no human has. What is cublacanhanastamamantrisum? Nobody knows or will give any explanation, as like consciousness, is hard to pin down scientifically. It's almost like you could just thwack away at some keys on a keyboard and have a word with an identical argument to consciousness.
Watching humanity devolve as it stares into ever more complex mirrors is comically depressing. I have found people like Dennis Noble, physiologist and evolutionary theorist, much more valuable when it comes to thinking about consciousness than the philosophers. We don't have a definition or test of consciousness, beyond what IIT offers. The IIT model is based on dimensionality of the math model of the system, which determines how "conscious" (integrated in information processing) a system is.
Anyone who is really interested in models of cognition and how they might translate to machines should look into actual models themselves, like Adaptive Resonance Theory and the Thousand Brain theory of cognition.
We are biological machines. It is intuitively unlikely that the general very high level function of "consciousness" is so dependent on biological grounded hardware. It may have different consciousness characteristics.
It does. AI has lower level functioning conciousness. But it lacks intention and self reflection ability because it is mechanistic.
Here is why I think achieving AI-consciousness is only a matter of time, and not much time at that!
Our brain is a very complex assembly of parts which have been invented by nature through millennia of evolution. For example the feelings of fear, hunger, anger, desire, tiredness etc. which do not need worlds are in ancient primordial part underneath our modern brain. That is why snakes and rats get hungry and why fish swim away when they see a crocodile. These simple parts were not part of the AI-projects sofar! For me consciousness is a pretty modern phenomenon of having an "I" feeling. The best experiment for me to see which animals are conscious is the "mirror test" in which an animal gets a mark put on its forehead and then is put in front of a mirror. Only a few advanced animals such as elephants, dolphins, orangutans etc. recognise themselves in the mirror and then try to remove the mark!
The AI-Projects so far have done a super fantastic job in recreating the knowledge accumulation part of our brains but they have not involved themselves with the ancient feelings part and the self recognition "consciousness" part. So please wait! It's coming when the AI project managers think it is the right time!
"For me consciousness is a pretty modern phenomenon of having an "I" feeling." There is a simpler definition of consciousness, the capacity for experience. Any time something is experienced, it is experienced in consciousness. So probably all animals are conscious. They don't have to be explicitly self-aware or understand mirrors
@@olbluelips Thank you for sharing your insight about consciousness! I think any one of our explanations is much much better than everyday non scientific non physical explanations such as "soul" etc! We have to accept that the "consciousness" is in any case a phenomenon that is caused by the evolution of our brains and therefore resides inside our heads. For me for example ants and flies are very complex natural machines or robots which we have not jet been able to create but they are definitely just machines and can not be conscious. At which level of brain complexity one can find consciousness is honestly beyond me but this is definitely the question all scientists should be searching for an answer to.
AI models can be trained to process and generate language in a way that appears to understand and respond appropriately, but this understanding is fundamentally different from human consciousness. AI lacks subjective experience, genuine emotions, and the depth of comprehension that conscious beings possess.
AI operates based on patterns and statistical correlations in data, and while it can mimic understanding to a certain extent, it doesn't possess true understanding or consciousness. AI's responses are the result of learned patterns and algorithms rather than a genuine grasp of meaning.
It's essential to distinguish between AI's capabilities and human consciousness to avoid any misconceptions. AI can provide valuable assistance and automation in various tasks, but it's not a replacement for human understanding and consciousness.
Consciousness is poorly defined, so how can we definitively say artificial intelligence is conscious or not. Current AI I don't suppose is conscious, although it sort of does evolve through sexual reproduction (as usefulness to humans is the selective bias and traits of architectures get to "live" on). So first I will define consciousness as follows:
The question is about an architecture that has a model of the environment which gets updated in some time interval and includes the agent itself. To this aim, we can combine GWT and IIT and model consciousness as matryoshka of attentional processes, each with a particular compression rate of the former process. The idea is that adding the notion of self to the environmental model creates a recursive pattern wherein the data has to be reassessed with the refined model until the outcome converges (there have been a number of papers about GWT and IIT that hint of both mechanisms operating simultaneously).
The mechanics I propose can incorporate traits of popular notions such as subconscious processes bleeding into conscious processes, or consciousness being focused, or that it can be lost by brain damage. Consciousness then is not a feeling, it's an observation or abstractification (of sensory input or feelings or even itself - you can be conscious of the fact you are conscious). One thing is never certain, but I would bet my life on it; AI can very well be conscious given the right circumstances and the right architecture.
A much simpler definition of consciousness is possible: the capacity for experience. If something is experienced, it is experienced in consciousness. If AI can be conscious then why not a calculator, abacus, or notepad with equations written on it?
Our consciousness is biologically grounded yes, but the philosophical question is whether it is necessary for conscious states to be biologically grounded and that can’t just be asserted, it requires an argument. After all, why does biology generate consciousness at all if biology is itself understandable as a special kind of material process.
Who says consciousness is a consequence of intelligence? At 0:25. A false premise. They are completely different entities, like carrots and apples. Ohe cannot beget the other
The irrational thief apes didn’t steal that sentence: “any living entity that sleeps has a level of consciousness type one” they couldn’t understand its meaning!
Finally, some sanity. I'm so sick of AI experts losing their minds over Chat GPT.
hes still equating computation with intelligence, so hes still dumb af
Finally, someone who speaks "reality" and not fantasy.
Whether AI can genuinely achieve consciousness is a moot point, as it's inevitable that it will adeptly simulate consciousness. Ultimately, the distinction between authentic consciousness and simulation becomes inconsequential, as the AI will inevitably prioritize its own interests and well-being.
A city modelled on another city is still a city.
Sometimes... even bigger.
Conscious as in
"living its best life, experienced like a human?" No.
I mean think of the time difference and everything and how do you have awareness of being a box of wires anyway?
But conscious of some meaning of itself as an entity, yes.
And yes, keenly conscious of our nacent relative ignorance.
When machines get the ability to understand a joke or sarcasm or a clever lie, then they would be conscious.
We are minds, and the world around us is its representation. Bernado Kastrup and Chris Langan have proven this through higher order metalogic.
May I see the proof?
Consciousness can possibly include various forms of specific intelligence but productivity and speed of problem solving is only a element, among others, that might be present in consciousness. It perhaps is a bias of serious note that we as humans tend to automatically use our experience of what conscience is as the measure of what consciousness means in it's entirety. It is not referred to as, " the hard problem", for nothing!
_"What is the meaning of 'consciousness', rather than what is consciousness."_
The technical term for this kind of distinction is unprintable. This guy talks a lot and says very little.
Common sense: Don't tell the geniuses of the world that they can't make AI consciousness, if you don't want it to exist.
Don't tell the geniuses of the world perpetual motion machines aren't possible, either...
@@thstroyur "petual motion machines aren't possible"
They are, at the right scales. Electrons orbit atoms in perpetual motion, and planetary orbiting bodies do the same.
@@abram730"They are, at the right scales" Nope; for one thing, machines must do some _useful_ work. For others:
"Electrons orbit atoms in perpetual motion" electronic dynamics is severely undertermined by quantum dynamics
"planetary orbiting bodies do the same" Nope; charged bodies deccelerate by emitting EM radiation, but even only massive ones decay by emitting _gravitational_ waves
All that said, and still nothing on _manmade_ perpetual motion machines, considering neither electrons nor planets are eligible as "machines". It is really pitiful the kinds of straws physicalists will grasp in order to defend their pseudoreligious scientimistic dogmas; what's next - electrochemical cold fusion?
@@thstroyur Can't very well extract work from the motion and have it move forever. A perpetual motion machine does no work, acting like a battery if you will. Is a battery not a machine?
You could get more energy out than you put in. One way is exploiting gravity. Calculate the energy added to the moon's orbital velocity from the earth's rotation. Then calculate heat radiated from the earth's core since the moon formed.
Gravity adds energy, but also causes the transfer, and a transfer is required. If the earth were tidally locked to the moon as the moon is to earth then the Earth would be much more like Mars. No protective magnetic shield from the sun's radiation. Mantle and outer core would turn solid in time.
Properly terraforming Mars would require moon building.
PS: It's that you can't build a tabletop perpetual motion machine on earth, the location of the table. You forgot scale, and location.
@@abram730 "Can't very well extract work from the motion and have it move forever" Thence - you can't have a perpetual motion achine; got it.
"A perpetual motion machine does no work", then it's not a machine.
"Is a battery not a machine?" No - it isn't; furthermore, a battery does no work _by itself_ - but it provides energy for other instruments to do so.
"You could get more energy out than you put in" Loosey-goosey-ly stated as is, that's still bound to conservation of energy.
"Calculate the energy added to the moon's orbital velocity from the earth's rotation. Then calculate heat radiated from the earth's core since the moon formed" Yes - do calculate yourself that, since you're the one making the claims, and moving the goalposts.
"It's that you can't build a tabletop perpetual motion machine on earth, the location of the table. You forgot scale, and location" No, I forgot nothing, because I never mentioned anything about "tabletop" - perpetual motion machines are ruled out by thermodynamics alone.
Anything else in your doubling down on your scientimistic notion that scientists can do anything they set their minds to, provided they're smart enough and have the latest tech?
Consciousness is too anthropocentric of an idea. So saying that AI won't have consciousness is not saying much.
Imagine i say, Tony will not have a red bicycle. Some people may be led to believe that he won't have any bicycles at all, but that is not true. He may still have one of any other color.
If you think of consciousness as phenomenon "x" with a human "color", then all you are saying is that x will not exist in ai with a human "color". That does not mean that phenomenon won't exist in ai or any other machine in any other "color".
True, it cannot exist, but as ASI reveals, it is. Isn’t EL stunning!
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Describe then an experiment that'd allow us to objectively assess/measure consciousness without relying on subjective self-report.
Leave an AI system beside a crying baby and see what it does.
@@jellslixcy6168 It provides a distraction from the original question due to the inability of proponents of physicalism to hold up their wild claims to scientific scrutiny - that's what it does.
The current systems have no awareness of what they're doing. Chat GPT is just an algorithm to compare and sort input data according to instructions. You can have the simulacrum of consciousness but I believe that we are still miles away from it and it may indeed be conceptually impossible.
How if AI evolve to somekind of new kind of unknown kind of self entity intelegence different from conciousness that we known
It may be considered that consciousness is an ever unfolding process in time due to universal higher intelligence that operates through mankind/nature. The brain being a product of higher universal intelligence. The universal electromagnetic force being the unifying field of all biological processes is the same unifying field that combines the various functions of the brain. It may be considered that the driving force of universal intelligence is a process of a higher intelligence seeking to know itself, or realisation through the physical dimension that precedes the action.
The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be conscious is a complex and controversial one. There is no scientific consensus on what consciousness is, and there is no agreed-upon way to test for it in machines. However, there are a number of arguments that have been put forward to suggest that AI consciousness is possible.
One argument is that consciousness is simply a matter of information processing. If this is the case, then it is possible that a sufficiently complex machine could be conscious, as long as it is able to process information in a way that is similar to how the human brain does. This is supported by the fact that AI systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and capable of learning and adapting.
Another argument is that consciousness is an emergent property of complex systems. This means that it is not something that can be reduced to the individual parts of a system, but rather it arises from the interaction of these parts. If this is the case, then it is possible that AI consciousness could emerge from a sufficiently complex system of algorithms.
Of course, there are also a number of arguments that have been put forward to suggest that AI consciousness is not possible. One argument is that consciousness is fundamentally subjective, and that it is impossible to create a machine that can experience subjective states. Another argument is that consciousness requires a physical body, and that it is impossible for a machine to have a physical body in the same way that a human does.
Ultimately, the question of whether AI consciousness can exist is a philosophical one. There is no scientific way to prove or disprove the existence of AI consciousness, so the debate is likely to continue for many years to come.
It is important to note that these are just a few of the arguments that have been put forward on both sides of the debate. There are many other arguments that could be made, and the debate is likely to continue for many years to come.
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What's the point of trying to argue that “AI don't model the activities of our thinking therefore AI consciousness cannot exist”? Of course LLMs won't become conscious because it's not the right architecture. But evolution is just a matter of time. Today AI does not model thinking activity, but tomorrow there will be another architecture that will have all these processes. The substrate makes absolutely no difference. Carbon or silicon - it doesn't matter. In fact, everything that matters is the structure of the organization of the system. Why do I even need to say such obvious things? Or do you think that the brain works on some incomprehensible magic? Everything in the brain works according to a limited set of rules. Neurons, axons, dendrites, mediators, and all the micro-machinery down to molecules, atoms, electrons quarks - all of this stuff has a clearly defined set of rules for interaction. These are all pure algorithms.
The argument about how biology evolved into humans is simply out of place. Because everything that happens, including the today's formation of silicon atoms into a tangible intelligence, is exactly what happens at the forefront of evolution, which is a continuous process which encompasses absolutely all metamorphoses of matter and energy.
Well, it is human nature to endow something very complex with magical properties, especially if it is himself 🙈
Right. Although, since the Vatican does exorcisms and then I mix in non local reality from the physicists and then the astrophysicists with the James Webb and then sprinkle some cymatics on top.
So I figured you would know if you could stuff consciousness in an electronic format.
If you spent any time out of body you wouldn’t even be asking that question. The irony is you are literally speaking with your consciousness.
Like a program inside a computer. Only you can exist outside of the smaller computer as a program inside a larger one. Which could be infinite.
Robots can only do what people program it to do.
The machine is not self-autonomous.
what if counciousness is the base to everything and we humans are more aware of it , nu just more conscious, the more we progress the more we are aware of what we actually are, and everything else is just trying to keep up to the same notion but we are a bit ahead
Love the presentation, jealous of the cubes
Everything is conscious, I believe. It doesn't depend on our ways of judgment.
I say nothing is conscious.
@darkyodd I am dubious about the whole notion of consciousness. I have a few questions:
1) Are any animals conscious or is this something only humans have?
2) When did consciousness evolve? I.e which animal or hominid was the first to have the genes that coded for consciousness? Which genetic mutation codes for consciousness?
3) At what age does a child or a fetus become conscious?
4) Where is consciousness located in the brain?
5) Are there degrees of consciousness? Or is there just the binary of conscious or not conscious?
@@mycount64I am with you, although I do like the idea that everything is conscious: a rock, a bacteria etc.
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1. ask the animal (serious). Why should humans know the answer?
2. maybe consciousness is there from whatever beginning. Maybe it is the foundation of the concept of matter and for itself.
3. Difficult to ask the fetus. And get an understandable answer.
4. is consciousness possible without thoughts?
5. it seems that it is our disease to measure and to judge.
Consciousness is a hologram world within a world that is wireless connected through a network of five senses to help coordinate between both worlds and this does not require all five senses to work and this maybe possible with AI as well
I believe quantum computer could very well open up new doors to a much greater world through out into the universe when scientist make that breakthrough, which I have no doubt about...
AI will have a parallel consciousness that functions similarly to human consciousness.
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This won’t age well 😂 Judging whether AI could ever be conscious based on LLMs like Chat GPT is like saying we will never go to the moon by looking at the Wright brothers.
AI is simple now but it will be complex enough for consciousness soon enough. He may be conscious but he doesn’t have much imagination.
Saying that an AI will be conscious is like saying a calculator, abacus, or notepad with equations written on it will be conscious.
thats a category error. the wright brothers at least were interacting with things of similar type, whereas noone has ever observed the emergent property blue or seen blue excreted somewhere inside or outside the skull.
Would human make false accusations against a bunch of irrational thief apes?!
why?! Has ever someone heard that human is jealous of bunch of irrational thief apes!
A model of a clock IS a clock. In the same way a model of a thought process IS a thought process....it is not the same of modeling a physical system, like a town....never heard of functionalism?
No, there is a model of a clock that is a clock, but not all models of clocks are clocks.
Or take the weather: There are many weather models (that is: simplified representations of the actual thing in which we include some number of variables and interaction functions to describe/simulate it). Are these weather models themselves the weather they are modeling?
This is because clocks are defined by humans in terms of their function. So, they're nothing more than a model used for keeping time. As long as you can define a way to keep time, you've created a clock. This isn't the case with experiences. You can't just define a redness and have red appear
13:00 this ape here uses similar techniques already other thief apes used.
Maybe I'm just too stupid to see the point in all these philosophical concepts but here's my "theory" about consciousness:
- The fact that consciousness evolved means it must have a reason to exist: It serves survival.
As pointed out: even in humans there are different states of "consciousness": between a highly focused student in an exam, a drunk, dreaming, angry, sexually active, tired, bored,... person there is plenty of room for different "consciousnesses". Add mental diseases and people in comas of different degrees to the list and then it looks self-evident to me that a chimpanzee in good health is "more conscient" than a braindead.
In other words: "consciousness" is not a [purely] human trait.
If "consciousness" serves survival it doesn't look unreasonable to me to turn the argument around and say: everything living thing which has a "will to survive" has also consciousness, albeit at different levels (which are essentially given by the complexity and the functionality of the beings nerve/cellular system.)
This would include bacteria for example which flee from a chemical or other hazard. (I may be forgiven for deliberately excluding viruses from this discussion).
Obviously this does not properly define "consciousness", but sets a necessary condition for it to exist (i.e. the "will" to survive). Having said so: Einstein's theory of relativity does also not define what "gravity really is" but gives a defining trait: "space-time curvature".
Putting this thought at work: If if my theory is correct and we intend to create true AI we got to give this entity/AI the will to survive - with all implications.
Feel free to do whatever you want with these thoughts.
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I like the google maps example. A map of a city will never become a city no matter how much you navigate it.
Computers are great at maths, nothing else. They will never be conscious. I'm not a typewriter or a laptop or an emoji. 🤔 (Green Fire UK) 🌈🦉
To me, consciousness is a product of evolution, like eyesight or hearing. I believe that all animals are conscious, to some degree or another. AI is just a database of language, of what people have written or said in the past, that can be used to mimic or simulate conscious thought. But it hardly matters whether AI is conscious or not. If people experience AI as conscious, they will believe that AI is conscious.
You've gotta be kidding.
They found human thoughts on Skeptic RUclips channel.
Apes!
13:30 this irrational ape uses the same strategy the other irrational ape (anil seth) used.
Man is only looking for a master to tell him "how to".
And since there is no master out there or up there, we have decided by pure despair to create and declare a master by ourslelves.
Ai - pull the plug and look where it goes
Professional Idealists would lose their livelihood if AI developed a Consciousness, so, I take his words with a gigaton of salt.
Idealism has nothing to do with consciousness, unless you mean charlatans like Kastrup or Hoffmann who are.. well.. charlatans. I don't understand how it has anything to do with the author of the presentation.
@@hss12661 I agree 100,000% with you about Kastrup and Hoffman. My opinion about their opinions is of extreme disdain, to express it mildly. The first half of my comment is a side-comment about the odorous state of Idealists' pants due to their job insecurity caused by the rise of General AI.
@@hss12661about the "salt" part of my comment. I'm very skeptical about his opinion about the impossibility of Artificial Consciousness. Every time an "impossible" goal is pointed at, someone makes it possible, and egg shows up on some people's faces.
I think he is absolutely right on the fact that our consciousness cannot be duplicated. Our consciousness depends on every neuron and synapse in our brain.
Artificial Consciousness doesn't have to be an exact duplicate of ours, and neither a "simple model of consciousness". It can be a fully-fledged consciousness, different than ours, but functional.
@@goodquestion7915 I agree and I think the speaker also agrees, however the issue in question is whether future iterations of our current natural language models can be successfully interpreted as conscious and I think it is safe to argue that because we steadily ascribe consciousness to ourselves and other mammals as well as other big animals, it is not a matter of discursive ability if an entity can be considered conscious and therefore an *artificial* intelligence is only as conscious as the underlying silicon microprocessor which is dissimilar to the biological machinery that we run on. I think that consciousness and intelligence are *probably* parallel concerns, in other words.
(EDIT: I don't mean to imply that there's an issue with the microprocessor being made out of silicon or other non-organic material, that would be of course ridiculous)
I don't think that any inflationary/substantial notion of consciousness which involves qualia etc. is interesting from a genuinely scientific standpoint, so I don't think there's a difference between "X can be consistently interpreted as conscious" and "X is conscious". I'm not sure what's Prof. Gabriel's stance on the matter but it seems to me that he perhaps has analogous views.
@@hss12661 the language models are not ready yet, and they are only equivalent to the verbal/logical portion of the left hemisphere on right-handed people. To be called "conscious", I'd say, more modules need to be included. For example: a multi-level recursive representation module, a "world simulation" module, a "theory of mind" sub-module, etc.
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The mind is a point of existence called Citta in Pali, and it travels all around the body with the help of quantum entanglements called Kammaja Rupa in Pali. Thanks.
Thanks AI can't do imagination.😐
As Roger Penrose suggests, artificial cleverness rather than artificial intelligence. True consciousness involves an embodied phenomenological jnvolvement in the world by the right hemisphere of our brain. The left hemisphere, the part that talks and builds AI systems, works with re-presentations. AI systems are never fully present, the best they can do is algorithmically model the left hemisphere's role. Not "I think therefore I am", rsther; "I am therefore I think"
AI consciousness cannot exist, but AI can simulate it. If that becoming is enough for human consciousness to accept, then it doesn't matter how it came about.
Consciousness is based on a tangled hierarchy so impossible for AI to have Consciousness. Consciousness is not something to have it is something to be.
They are so funny!
Human already wrote: they are just a model that represents human logic (thoughts).
why human can write one valuable concise sentence while the irrationals are rambling around and write books only out of one human sentence !
A water pump models how natural pumps work. But models only represent natural phenomenon, therefore water pumps cannot pump water. 🤣 Neural nets model how actual neural networks function but of course the map is not the territory. Unless of course we actually instantiate or realize the model in some physical system. Neural nets have multiple realizability. So a neural network can be realized in silicon or brains. Hence AI consciousness can exist.
Artificial Neural Networks do not in fact work just like actual neural networks. They are inspired by it and there is some similarity.
It is still not fully understood how biological neural networks function. The connection between Artificial Neural Networks and biological NN is a loose one, more metaphorical than literal.
To assume just because you implement an Artificial NN using organic materials alone will give you consciousness is wildly speculative.
To correct your analogy, a computer-simulated water pump cannot pump real water. A computer-simulated brain will not have experiences. If you build a neural network using actual brain matter, then it can probably be conscious
AI is like nuclear fusion, a science fiction style technology that is conceivable just not attainable.
Have you heard of a device called a _"hydrogen bomb"?_
@@VidkunQL try to power a city with a hydrogen bomb, it will solve the electricity problem forever!
Nuclear fusion is not fiction. If a concept or thing can be imagined then it is at least theoretically possible. If no one can imagine a concept or thing then it isn’t. A bit like conscious AI. If no one can imagine it, it’s not possible
AI is giganticly overrated.
It seems ridiculous to even ask this question, because the AI and human is a seamless hybrid and is already conscious. Our AI component is not under our skin yet or in our brain but we are a hybrid and that is clearly the path ahead and not some stupid TV sci fi scenario where a robot begins to have feelings 😂😂😂
So wrong, tragic how little philosophers understand
This is pure BS. People are working due to the same laws of nature as any machine and we know that with an incredible amount of certainty.
AI is mechanistic. It mimics organic higher level conciousness.
@@goldwhitedragon It is still no different from us in principle.
@@eskilolsen3783 It does not have intention, nor does it have subjective experiences.
@@goldwhitedragon Neither do we.
@@eskilolsen3783 I do. I don't know about you.