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An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious
(www.pcmag.com)
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That's not why. They're calling it AI because it is AI. AI doesn't mean sapient or conscious.
Edit: look at this diagram if you're still unsure:
No, it's because it isn't conscious. An LLM is a static model (all our AI models are in fact). For something to be conscious or sapient it would require a neural net that can morph and adapt in real-time. Nothing currently can do that. Training and inference are completely separate modes. A real AGI would have to have the training and inference steps occurring at once and continuously.
That's the same as arguing "life" is conscious, even though most life isn't conscious or sapient.
Some day there could be AI that's conscious, and when it happens we will call that AI conscious. That still doesn't make all other AI conscious.
It's such a weirdly binary viewpoint.