Why are AGI and conscious AI just a marketing scam?

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• one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because it’s a computer program running on a computer? Typing very fast on a calculator won’t make it conscious, ever.

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• Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While it’s true that “AGI” is vaguely defined and often used for hype, portraying it as a deliberate marketing trap designed to evade accountability goes too far. It’s more accurate to say the term is aspirational and commercially useful, but many serious researchers (at DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) are genuinely working toward more general capabilities. The vagueness is real, but the “evil master plan” implication lacks evidence.

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  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If consciousness can only be observed subjectively, why do people sometimes say someone is unconscious?

    Nothing can ever be proven (even math proofs assume you aren’t hallucinating about having seen a convincing proof), but that usually isn’t the standard of evidence.

    LLMs seem to meet most standards of consciousness formulated before GPT-2 released. They’re dumb in predictable ways, but so are human babies and horses and chickens and bees.

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    • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Medical unconsciousness is a different thing. That’s not what’s being discussed here.

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