Looks so real !
The Eliza effect
I had a poster in ‘86 that I wanted to come alive.
Ah but have you tried burning a few trillion dollars in front of the painting? That might make a difference!
As long as we can’t even define sapience in biological life, where it resides and how it works, it’s pointless to try and apply those terms to AI. We don’t know how natural intelligence works, so using what little we know about it to define something completely different is counterintuitive.
I don’t expect it. I’m going to talk to the AI and nothing else until my psychosis hallucinates it.
Idk. Sometimes I wonder if psychosis is preferable to reality.
And not even a good painting but an inconsistent one, whose eyes follow you around the room, and occasionally tries to harm you.
…new SCP?
Agents have debated that the new phenomenon may or may not constitute a new designation. While some have reported the painting following them, the same agents will then later report nothing seems to occur. The agents who report a higher frequency of the painting following them also report a higher frequency of unexplained injury. The injuries can be attributed to cases of self harm, leading scientists to believe these SCP agents were predisposed to mental illness that was not caught during new agent screening.
That kind of painting seems more likely to come alive
New fear unlocked!
… What the hell, man?!
ಥ_ಥ
Except … being alive is well defined. But consciousness is not. And we do not even know where it comes from.
Not fully, but we know it requires a minimum amount of activity in the brains of vertabrates, and at least observable in some large invertebrates.
I’m vastly oversimplifying and I’m not an expert, but essentially all consciousness is, is an automatic processing state of all present stimulation in a creatures environment that allows it to react to new information in a probably survivable way, and allow it to react to it in the future with minor changes in the environment. Hence why you can scare an animal away from food while a threat is present, but you can’t scare away an insect.
It appears that the frequency of activity is related to the amount of information processed and held in memory. At a certain threshold of activity, most unfiltered stimulus is retained to form what we would call consciousness - in the form of maintaining sensory awareness and at least in humans, thought awareness. Below that threshold both short term and long term memory are impaired, and no response to stimulation occurs. Basic autonomic function is maintained, but severely impacted.
Viruses and prions: “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
Two words “contagious cancer”
Cancer is at least made out of cells. Viruses are just proteins dipped in evil
The first life did not possess a sentient consciousness. Yet here you are reading this now. No one even trued to direct that. Quite the opposite, everything has been trying to kill you from the very start.
Good showering!
Fair and flawless comparison. I’ve got nothing to add.
Since we don’t actually know what consciousness is or how it starts thats a pretty dumb way to look at things. It may not come from LLMs but who knows when or if it will pop up on one ai chain or another.
