It seems hard to me to be extremely confident in either direction. I’m personally quite sympathetic to the idea, but there is very little consensus on what consciousness is, or what a principled approach would look like to determining whether/to what extent a system is conscious.
What you write seems to be focused entirely on the behavior of a system, and while I know there people who agree with that focus, from what I can tell most consciousness researchers are interested in particular properties of the internal process that produces that behavior.
This is very helpful feedback to think about. It appears the paper you referenced will also be extremely helpful, although it will take me some time to digest it on account of its length (74 pages w/o the bibliography).
It seems hard to me to be extremely confident in either direction. I’m personally quite sympathetic to the idea, but there is very little consensus on what consciousness is, or what a principled approach would look like to determining whether/to what extent a system is conscious.
Here is a recent paper that gives a pretty in-depth discussion: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
What you write seems to be focused entirely on the behavior of a system, and while I know there people who agree with that focus, from what I can tell most consciousness researchers are interested in particular properties of the internal process that produces that behavior.
I just ran into a post which, if you are interested in AI consciousness, you might find interesting: Improving the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal
There seem to be a lot of good reasons to take potential AI consciousness seriously, even if we haven’t fully understood it yet.
Another helpful resource to digest. Many thanks!
This is very helpful feedback to think about. It appears the paper you referenced will also be extremely helpful, although it will take me some time to digest it on account of its length (74 pages w/o the bibliography).
Thanks so much. I appreciate it!