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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Discussing the consciousness of neural networks is NOT being pro-AI. I'd say it's even the opposite, as it displays the danger of such a technology.

Most of the words in the definition have multiple interpretations, it is not as easy as you wish it would be.

Finally, we do NOT at all know how trained neural networks work. We know how training and inference work. We can read the neurons, but the shear size of weights make it a rather impenetrable black box we have to study, partially, to understand the goals of the emergent sub networks.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Fearmongering about the idea of a neural network gaining consciousness is basically like doing free advertising for AI companies lmao

    You are ascribing a power to them that they do not possess

    For the record, I think neural networks have a lot of useful applications; for example, radiological image recognition. The term “AI” basically has no meaning though, and is most commonly used to describe LLMs, a technology that has very few (if any) good real world applications.

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