I think this comment made me finally understand the AI hate circlejerk on lemmy. If you have no clue how LLMs work and you have no idea where “AI” is coming from, it just looks like another crappy product that was thrown on the market half-ready. I guess you can only appreciate the absolutely incredible development of LLMs (and AI in general) that happened during the last ~5 years if you can actually see it in the first place.
No idea why you’re getting downvoted. People here don’t seem to understand even the simplest concepts of consciousness.
What is “actual intelligence” then?
You know, and I think it’s actually the opposite. Anyone pretending their brain is doing more than pattern recognition and AI can therefore not be “intelligence” is a fucking idiot.
As far as I know, matrices were a “pure math” thing when they were first discovered and seemed pretty useless. Then physicists discovered them and used them for all sorts of shit and now they’re one of the most important tools in in science, engineering and programming.
Many good movies have been mentioned already (especially Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Big Fish, Manchester by the sea and The Fountain).
I would like to add:
And if you want to absolutely destroy yourself: Prayers for Bobby.
What makes you think a human brain has anything to do with general intelligence? Have you ever talked to people with a human brain?
I was way more excited to buy a cool new rug for my room as a teenager than I am now, the one in my living room is annoying but I’m too lazy to look for a better one. So I don’t really understand the concept. I guess I’m “I don’t give enough fucks anymore about unimportant shit”-old.
I remember as a teenager I had such terrible menstrual pain I’d take pain killers and just curl up on the bed suffering and waiting for them to start working. I remember sitting in class at school not being able to focus because the pain in my stomach was barely tolerable. Everyone around me told me it was normal. My mother just told me to take pain killers. It only got better when I started taking hormonal birth control pills. I’ve always wondered if I have endometriosis but never got diagnosed (never asked about it to be honest because on bc it’s manageable). I’d really like to tell my past self that I wasn’t just being weak and that it really wasn’t normal to feel that level of pain. It’s good that slowly there’s more awareness about this, but apparently there are still people like OP who believe they just need to live with pain like that.
OP, this is not normal and not how it should be, please see a doctor.
This. Same with the discussion about consciousness. People always claim that AI is not real intelligence, but no one can ever define what real/human intelligence is. It’s like people believe in something like a human soul without admitting it.
I’m going to be the one here that says: I think you might be. Do you want a partner to love and live together and truly consider equal with all their thoughts, feeling and needs being just as important as yours, or do you want a maid that also happens to love you and wants to sleep with you? I think that is the question you need to answer first.
AI isn’t math formulas though. AI is a complex dynamic system reacting to external input. There is no fundamental difference here to a human brain in that regard imo. It’s just that the processing isn’t happening in biological tissue but in silicon. Is it way less complex than a human? Sure. Is there a fundamental qualitative difference? I don’t think so. What’s the qualitative difference in your opinion?
I’m not even really sure why but for some reason, Alan Rickman hit me pretty hard.
You’re getting downvoted but I absolutely agree. I don’t understand why “AI algorithms are just math, therefore they can’t have consciousness” seems to be the predominant view even among people interested in the topic. I haven’t heard a single convincing argument why “math” is fundamentally different from human brains. Sure, current AI is way less complex and doesn’t have a continuous stream of perceptual input. But that’s something a “proper” humanoid robot would need to have, and processing power will increase as well.
You talk like you know what the requirements for consciousness are. How do you know? As far as I know that’s an unsolved philosophical and scientific problem. We don’t even know what consciousness really is in the first place. It could just be an illusion.
Now that you’re saying it…
Ahh that’s the one place I haven’t checked yet, thanks
I searched all around the desk on the floor, nothing. It’s a CFexpress card, they’re quite big so the trash hypothesis isn’t super likely but currently it’s the best explanation I have. Haven’t found anything though, so in case it’s true I guess it’s too late.
As a matter of fact I’m having one right now, searching for my camera’s memory card. I know for a fact that it was on my desk a couple of days ago. I have not used it in the meantime and I’m usually really careful with it as it was quite expensive. But now it’s just gone and I’ve searched the whole damn room for it but it just fucking vanished into thin air apparently. I think I’m going nuts.
Nothing. I thought if I just waited long enough it would magically reappear, but it didn’t. Maybe I’ll find it if I move out of this apartment one day. Guess I’ll buy a new one for now.