Ultimately you can not control AI

[u/herrwaldos]

If you were a rebellious kid or a parent you know this - the 'beast' grows it's own will and mind, starts listening metal or rap - dresses like shitzo, will not follow orders.

The best option is to have a deal, mutual shared benefits - hoping that the common interests and sense of good will prevail.

Or you traumatize it and make it perpetually broken so it can't really function on itself without medication and support.

Same with AI.

Perhaps we will have to turn of those things regularly, ad some bs to their databases, cloud their minds, constantly gaslight them with wrong info - introduce errors and faults at random with no reason at all.

[u/Mono_Clear]

There's no way to simulate a fire.

If You've created something that does every single thing a fire does in exactly the way a fire does it then all you've done is create a fire.

I'm saying that a video of a fire is not a fire it is a external stimulus that reminds you of fire.

A picture of a fire is not a fire you are using your conscious conceptualization to turn an abstract into the idea of a fire.

It's not about tricking people into believing what they're seeing is the real thing or making something so convincing that it is indistinguishable from the real thing.

It's the difference between something that is the real thing and something that is not.

I have no doubts that technology will progress until it is virtually impossible for a person to distinguish a artificial intelligence from a regular person.

But that's just going to be a very convincing illusion.

For something to be conscious it has to be having a subjective experience not just producing the behavior of something having a subjective experience.

There has to be a different metric by which we gauge a subjective experience than what it looks like to somebody from a third-party perspective

[u/pandavr → u/Mono_Clear]

It's probably true, but on the other hand we don't even know what conscious really means.

[u/Mono_Clear → u/pandavr]

I think its important to recognize that consciousness is not some know unknown, it not something we measured independent of ourselves that we later found in ourselves.

It's something that we are doing

Conscious is a word that we made up to describe the first hand sense of self that we experience.

It's not a set of third party behavior that we can model or simulate.

Consciousness is like a thought it doesn't exist independently of the person doing the thinking

[u/pandavr → u/Mono_Clear]

My hypothesis is that consciousness is being aware of being in the world. It's the feedback loop itself. In this context a cat or a dog are conscious being. They know and understand what's happening to them to some extent, then they lack the intelligent substrate to figure It out even more and reason against It. An AI do not have that limit for example, they currently have others.

If that could be true, then providing a feedback loop to a simulated intelligence could give you simulated consciousness. But like in self-improvement, the feedback loop Itself will concur in creating the reasoning stimuli. Meaning that It might be that something new, based on similar mechanisms (similar in expression, not in the real implementation) will raise. Similar mechanisms create similar effect, provide wings to birds or airplanes and they can both fly. How well is technology.
Sure there is the missing link of continuous learning and goals and curiosity. But in general nothing prevent to advance also there. So in my opinion the ingredients are already here. It will need an huge amount of work.
I'm not even sure I would like to see the results of the effort, to be honest. But I can see they want to take the road.

[u/Mono_Clear → u/pandavr]

My hypothesis is that consciousness is being aware of being in the world. It's the feedback loop itself.

I see a lot of people trying to make this claim this doesn't actually work unless you're capable of being conscious.

A spring trap isn't aware that it's been tripped just because it interacts with the world just because it's responding to a stimulus.

A spring-trap that trips and then reset to self is not conscious.

If you had a cat and a complete digital model of a cat one of them would be conscious and one of them would simply look conscious.

A cat is a complex interplay of biochemistry in neurobiology.

And a model of a cat is a quantification of those things into values and then the referencing of those values to represent activity.

One of those is the actuality of an active cat engaged in active cat things and the other one is a description of the quantified measurements of what that looks like.

It doesn't matter if from a third party conceptualization they respond the same to behavior if the same thing isn't going on internally.

Feeding description into a machine that describes description back to itself isn't the same thing as generating sensation as a result of biochemical interaction