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Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no (pivot-to-ai.com)

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‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261005-anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no - podcast

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[-] Sina@beehaw.org -4 points 1 day ago

You could be totally right for all I know, but my argument against is that we humans have no idea what consciousness is & souls may not be real at all. To me panpsychism is more plausible than the vast majority of theories or mumbo jumbo regarding the soul, saying this as a comparison of plausibility without claiming that consciousness and the soul are the same or necessarily closely related.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean, fair enough, but can you explain how that impacts your decisions? What does panpsychism imply in matters of ethics or epistemology? Does it matter that the air you breathe can be thought of as in some way conscious?

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 8 hours ago

Lack of evidence is not evidence for your pet theory.

[-] ebu@awful.systems 4 points 11 hours ago

"what if EVERYTHING is secretly conscious, including the random word predictor" i say, flailing my paws in the air

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