[orbifold]

You might not need a definition of consciousness. Right now it looks like you can get quite far with „fill in the blanks“ type losses (gpt-2 and Bert) in the case of Language understanding and Self-Play in the case of Games.

[laughinghan]

We are indeed getting impressively far. Four decades after being invented, machine learning went from useless to useful to enormous societal ramifications terrifyingly quickly.

However, we are not getting impressively close to AGI. That's why we need to stop the AGI alarmism and get our act together on the enormous societal ramifications that machine learning is already having.