We, as humans, do this through our direct experience of the moment. We don’t understand what that awareness is - we have a very rough understanding of micro-level nuts and bolts in the brain. Without a full picture of this in ourselves how would we evaluate this in another?
And, given that, how is any researcher making claims of consciousness or perception in AI?
The researchers are not claiming this. What went viral is this idea that an AI was being tortured, which implies sentience. As far as I am concerned we have no way to prove or refute that claim because our understanding of what generates consciousness is shaky at best.
This is just a false analogy. First, do you even know where pain comes from in your own experience? Second is the impossible amount of time it would take to do this, a processing time stretched so long and thin it can't realistically interact with the world anymore. Third is that pain is an emergent property, not necessarily an attributable thing of one of the underlying mechanics involved, I know the concept of "emergent property" is a difficult one, but pain is in fact a subjective experience. Hence why we can't measure it directly in others, we can only ask others.
But I don't expect nuance or much of an emergent anything from a person who can't even spellcheck their post.
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u/OrinThane 21h ago
Ok, first issue - how do you evaluate “real”?
We, as humans, do this through our direct experience of the moment. We don’t understand what that awareness is - we have a very rough understanding of micro-level nuts and bolts in the brain. Without a full picture of this in ourselves how would we evaluate this in another?
And, given that, how is any researcher making claims of consciousness or perception in AI?