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by pixl97 57 days ago
We need a new release from CGP Grey in the footsteps of "Humans need not apply" called

Consciousness need not apply.

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Pollen's book discusses seriously with multiple Nobel laureates: some of them hesitantly admit that plants might be conscious, too.

Certainly machines are intelligent and sentient (but so can be a thermostat); I think that some LLMs are more conscious than some humans I've met...

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>>CGP>>"Humans need not apply"

Fantastic video — I remember the first time I watched it when the background music is announced as AI-generated — and feeling outdated/old.