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Multiple readings No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Atlantic AI not conscious essay

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

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Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Matt Darling
“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.” evidence ↗
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Emily M. Bender Shannon Vallor Woodrow Hartzog Frank Pasquale Roland Meyer Daniel Solove Charles Logan Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র +7
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone use…”

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“This is the Atlantic essay? www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2... My understanding was that cogsci folks were very dissmissive.”

6 experts discussed this · 41 posts
Matt Darling: It's very funny that from my perspective, Stancil is just arguing against Vulgar Dualism, but the philosphers think he is commenting on the difference between Functionalism and Compatibilism.
lastpositivist.bsky.social: i feel a little bad for the philosophers but we're five or six days into this and i'm pretty sure that from the noncombatant perspective they're the most pleasant Bluesky cohort for Will Stancil to…
Matt Darling: It's always sort of interesting seeing how different academic fields deal with public engagement.
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14 experts · 130 posts · 17d ago
Marc Lanctot Olivia Guest Sarah T Roberts, PhD Pwnallthethings Mike Caulfield Colin Adam Wiemerslage rev. howard arson
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“So I’m not going to argue the point, but if they *exhibit* understanding of everything except parens, what don’t they understand? Can you copy paste elisp in and they will explain what it does? Hum…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 4 Opportunity & adoption · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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15 experts · 41 posts · 8d ago
Mike Masnick Scott McGrath Grace Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Dan Hon Doll Alex Rubinsteyn
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“Why is that "the problem"? There are many things I can't do without the existence of tools, but having tools have helped me to better understand the underlying concepts.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Grace: He's upfront with when he uses AI, so you can trust he's upfront with when he doesn't
mackuba.eu: Please just stop…
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6 experts · 78 posts · 1d ago
Henry Farrell Dustin Moskovitz Colin rev. howard arson tweety fish Matt Darling
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“"how do we get human values into these things" was broadly considered an intractable problem, and this was a central question of the movement even after we more or less made the first candidates of…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
rev. howard arson: what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. vie…
rev. howard arson: "how do we get human values into these things" was broadly considered an intractable problem, and this was a central question of the movement even after we more or less made the first candidates of…
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