Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Proof that AI Understands? 👀 Andrew Ng on LLMs building mental models, Othello GPT, Geoffrey Hinton" video.

Frankly at the point that we accept a computer is as conscious as a human, we have forfeited our souls. It's blasphemy. My toaster is no further away from being self aware than chatgpt is.
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For our own good, we were not programmed to understand it remotely well.
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@JustAThought01 I think we agree. We do not need to understand the game, in that we are given the tools we need to stay alive and reproduce. The game you described is "reality", a comprehensive understanding of which I don't believe is available to any living being in the universe. And I dispute that we are on a path of self destruction. If you are thinking within the paradigm of our current, fleeting, global civilization, then yes I agree. But the world turns in cycles. There are golden ages and there are dark ages. We might change the environment, billions may die and that would be quite awful, but survive we will - and in time we will grow a new civilization.
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@jeffbull8781 To suggest that a machine can be equally as self aware as you or I would have me question the sentience of all life on earth, including the people around me. The single fact I can be sure of is that I am conscious. All I can do at this point is accept solipsism, because I'm obviously a Baltzmann Brain and every other being I meet is either a figment of my imagination or an avatar in my personal simulation. It leads us down a path of nihilism that I am quite sure is catastrophic. As I said, it's blasphemy, and flies in the face of everything is means to be human. I cannot ever accept that a machine is anything more than just a machine.
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