[nickserv]

Nah, it's the equivalent of seeing faces in static, or animals in clouds.

Our brains are hardwired to see patterns, even when there are none.

A similar, and related, behavior is seeing intent and intelligence in random phenomenon.

[GaggiX]

This is clearly not random. If I ask to implement a particular function in Rust using a library I've previously built, and it does that, that's not random.

[jimbokun]

So it's behaving like our brains. Yet it's not AGI.

Does that mean our brains do not implement General Intelligence?

[sfink]

When I take a dump, I do it exactly like a violin virtuoso does. I am not a violin virtuoso.

Trust me, I'm really not.

[ryandvm]

Absolutely bonkers analogy. Ironically, I have no doubt that GPT4 could come up with a better one. What does that mean?

[jumping_frog]

Consciousness is a suitcase term. Once all the clothes that define consciousness are neatly arranged and packed into AI then it will be conscious too.