There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence – Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05868-8

by air7 • 9 months ago

2 2 9 months ago

There is no such thing as conscious AI.

They said it in nature so it must be true. Well, I'm convinced.

We believe that these flawed associations arise from a lack of technical knowledge and the way several new technologies (especially LLMs) work, which can create the illusion of consciousness.

Ah yes, the dude that has a phd in cognitive neuroscience and has received a nobel prize for his AI contributions to chemistry, definitely doesn't understand how this technology works.

We believe that mathematical algorithms implemented on graphics cards cannot become conscious because they lack a complex biological substrate.

Ah, yes the substrate stuff. Darn klankers, they're built out of silicon, they surely can't do x and y because muh biology.

What a weak article. Give hydrogen a few bilion years and it starts feeling superior to silicon.

gus_massa• 9 months ago

They said it in nature so it must be true. Well, I'm convinced.

It's not "Nature" (informally "Plain Nature") It's one of the related journals by the same publisher

nature > humanities and social sciences communications

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I'm ignoring all these post, the ones that say "yes" and the ones that say "no". It will be solved in a few years. Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1002/

There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence – Nature

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