Pontifex has a well-reasoned position given the current understanding of the technology and any major assertions require an equally major amount of evidence.

Given how quickly this industry moves, the Magnifica Humanitas has aged amazingly well since its release almost half a year ago, far better than statements by most industry insiders across a broad range. Whether you are a Catholic, another mono- or polytheistic faith, Atheist, Deist, etc. I really recommend it.

1. Write a simulation environment like conway's game of life, perhaps a little more complicated. But leave out any human bias.

2. Run it until life starts to form.

3. Wait until the creatures start speaking about the concept of consciousness (of course in their own language, which you'll have to decipher first).

The way Amodei did it is with human bias, so it's not going to work.

It doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes.

It just runs programs."

  > He decided to go ahead with the event, telling an audience that the company’s research into AI models has found “structures that mirror results from human neuroscience”

A.I. does not feel hunger, does not need to evacuate substrates and subproducts of metabolism because it simply does not need to metabolize anything at all.

Failure to remember what makes us human might only leave us ignorant to what makes us human.

The joy of conceiving a child and the sorrow of losing a fellow human who lived a life having to breath, eat, and basically spend every single moment of every single day trying to achieve homeostasis at various levels, having experiences that change behavior purely for survival. That's us, that's humanity.

There may come a time, but it's silly to mistake the LLMs automaton behavior for consciousness.

Is to point how typing corrections and suggestions work because they get that and how it makes mistakes "damn you autocorrect"

Then explain that's almost how words are stitched together in "AI"

And how pixels are manipulated to make photos and video

Just on an exponential level over autocorrect with every existing text document, scientific study, every photo and video fed in instead of words to autocorrect

And why they make mistakes and hallucinate if they are not supervised and harnessed

We are a long way from AGI, at least not this decade

(and someone really needs to explain that to the orange idiot too)