| > People without language - never learned, or sometimes temporarily disabled due to drugs, or permanently due to injury, transient or permanent aphasia - are still consciously thinking people. There are 40 definitions of the word "consciousness". For the definitions pertaining to inner world, nobody can tell if anyone besides themselves (regardless of if they speak or move) is conscious, and none of us can prove to anyone else the validity of our own claims to posess it. When I dream, am I conscious in that moment, or do I create a memory that my consciousness replays when I wake? > Words from an AI have nothing behind them but word statistics, devoid of any real world, just words based on words. > […] > When a fresh out of college person writes this it's based on some shallow real world experience, and lots of hearsay. My required reading at school included "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. The horrors of being gassed during trench warfare were alien to us in the peaceful south coast of the UK in 1999/2000. AI are limited, but what you're describing here is the "book learning" vs. "street smart" dichotomoy rather than their actual weaknesses. |