[southernplaces7]

>I read yesterday that most major AI systems cannot correctly answer “which is larger, 7.11 or 7.9?”.

It's largely irrelevant whether an AI system (say, GPT for example) can or can't correctly answer this number question. Many otherwise normal, socially functional humans would be stumped by it too though they without a doubt have self directed cognition and more or less the same sense of self awareness that you or I feel.

The real distinction with GPT or any known modern AI system is that it lacks that sensor of distinct self and its essential cognition, regardless of how well they do with number puzzles.

Something like GPT being largely able to pass the Turing test in the eyes of a human interacting with it doesn't demonstrate that the AI system has cognition, it instead evidently demonstrates that the Turing test was always a poor metric of advanced AI performance..

[TaylorAlexander]

I agree with this! I simply find it hard to explain the shortcomings in a way that people accept, and clear examples like this are the best I can do. But you’ve said it nicely.