Thank you for the post!
I just want to add some pointers to the literature which also add to the uncertainty regarding whether current or near-future AI may be conscious:
VanRullen & Kanai have made reasonably concrete suggestions on how deep learning networks could implement a form of global workspace: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166223621000771
Moreover, the so-called “small network” or “trivial realization” argument suggests that most computational theories of consciousness can be implemented by very simple neural networks which are easy to build today: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0893608007001530?via%3Dihub
http://henryshevlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Trivial-Realisation-Argument.pdf
Thanks.
Thank you for the post!
I just want to add some pointers to the literature which also add to the uncertainty regarding whether current or near-future AI may be conscious:
VanRullen & Kanai have made reasonably concrete suggestions on how deep learning networks could implement a form of global workspace: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166223621000771
Moreover, the so-called “small network” or “trivial realization” argument suggests that most computational theories of consciousness can be implemented by very simple neural networks which are easy to build today: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0893608007001530?via%3Dihub
http://henryshevlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Trivial-Realisation-Argument.pdf
Thanks.