[MattPalmer1086]

Why do people conflate consciousness with AGI?

Intelligence is about being able to use information, make deductions, inferences or hypotheses. And presumably use that to inform action.

Consciousness is about having an internal experience. I would regard many living things as having consciousness but not a general intelligence.

[satisfice]

There is no point in talking about AGI unless you mean sentience. That’s what everyone cares about. The rest is technobabble.

[MattPalmer1086]

Why would anyone specifically care about making a machine that can experience feelings? Could be dumb as a brick, but sentient.

[satisfice]

It's what everyone other than pedantic jerks think AGI means. Read a book. Watch a movie. Every depiction of AGI is essentially a depiction of a human. Sometimes a human without substantial emotions. That's sentience.

[MattPalmer1086]

The focus of AGI is on achieving human equivalence in cognitive tasks, or to surpass it ("intelligence"). That's where the money and the research is. Making a stupid machine that happens to be aware ("sentient") isnt the goal.

[WithinReason]

because the I in AGI stands for intelligence, not sentience.

[satisfice]

That's not what anyone means by it. Are you paying attention to why people care about AGI? AGI means "human-like."

[Sharmaji000]

dumbest thing i heard.

[WithinReason]

besides, even humans don't have general intelligence

[sph]

Speak for yourself.