BI 231 Jaan Aru: Conscious AI? Not Even Close!

“The whole subject is a non-starter as we don't even have a viable definition of consciousness. Until we do, how can we deduce if anything is conscious? We just take it for granted that humans are all conscious, but it may be on a spectrum.…”

“Given that we currently have zero ideas as to what mechanism gives rise to consciousness, or what things may or may not be conscious, then how could you be sure that that Von Neumann based systems (Turing machines) can't be conscious?”

“I don’t think modern AI systems are conscious but it’s not precluded from existing outside of biological systems. It comes down to the architecture, von neumann based computation can’t produce consciousness but can produce high valence facs…”

“I don't think that anybody's actually claiming that the current LLM agents and their architectures actually think like we do, but then why would something like human brains be a prerequisite for awareness? My chickens have very different br…”