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How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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Philosophers haven't come up with a good way to determine if you were the only conscious being in a universe populated with zombies or not. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
I'd also suggest going through https://www.3blue1brown.com/topics/neural-networks to understand some of the concepts behind it. The 'regurgitating data' isn't entirely accurate (and that statement is likely to evoke some debate). The amount of source data is compressed far too much for it to be returned largely intact (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity for some bit on the information theory)... though yes, there are some situations where specific passages (or images) get memorized.