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Three reasons why "AI" is not conscious and perhaps never will be
(www.nature.com)
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(book? The linked article is like 4 pages. References are somewhat larger, but nothing over 60 afaict?)
They claim that silicon is essentially incapable of doing what is needed; if you disagree with this, then computationally everything you can build with a circuit board + SSD + RAM you can build with an LLM with a deep layer or 7. In particular, you can do online learning of a sort.
I note that wasps and some beetles don't seem to have memory whatsoever, and plasticity seems awfully low. The authors, and I think most people, would say they are probably a little conscious.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54503521-a-thousand-brains
That book, not the article. I can't recall if it makes a convincing argument about consciousness, but it has a lot to say about general intelligence. I thought the neuroscience parts were a little cumbersome, but still worth the read.