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Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea | @anilkseth in @NoemaMag https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai
A fun thing about being alive right now is that we're beginning to build new & finer-grained formalizations of the idea at the end of Anil's essay: the "ground state of all experience," our innermost essence of "an inchoate feeling of just being alive."
For ex: the ground state
“The Mythology of Conscious AI” is a fascinating, thought-sharpening essay. It will make you question, think, & question again.
Also congrats to @anilkseth on winning the Berggruen Essay Prize. Well deserved.