I’m an idiot, but it seems like this is a different-enough path to artificial cognition that it could represent a new piece of the puzzle, or a new puzzle entirely—a new problem/solution space. As I understand it, AI capabilities research is building intelligence from the outside-in, whereas the consciousness model would be capable of building it from the inside-out.
Feel free to delete because this is highly tangential but are you aware of Mark Solms work (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-hidden-spring) on consciousness, and the subsequent work he’s undertaking on artificial consciousness?
I’m an idiot, but it seems like this is a different-enough path to artificial cognition that it could represent a new piece of the puzzle, or a new puzzle entirely—a new problem/solution space. As I understand it, AI capabilities research is building intelligence from the outside-in, whereas the consciousness model would be capable of building it from the inside-out.
My 2¢—I read that book and I think it has minimal relevance to AGI capabilities & safety.
(I think the ascending reticular activating system is best thought of as mostly “real-time variation of various hyperparameters on a big scaled-up learning-and-inference algorithm”, not “wellspring of consciousness”.)