A speculation: Consciousness is something that evolved for situations where speed *isn't* an advantage. It's for when coming up with sonething new is needed to deal with a novel situation, unlike matters that can be handled by automatic reflexes etc. If so, the comparison of how fast ChatGPT cranks out words to a human writer is not an i…
A speculation: Consciousness is something that evolved for situations where speed *isn't* an advantage. It's for when coming up with sonething new is needed to deal with a novel situation, unlike matters that can be handled by automatic reflexes etc. If so, the comparison of how fast ChatGPT cranks out words to a human writer is not an indicator of the machine's prospective ability to "outthink" us but rather of how it doesn't do so.
A speculation: Consciousness is something that evolved for situations where speed *isn't* an advantage. It's for when coming up with sonething new is needed to deal with a novel situation, unlike matters that can be handled by automatic reflexes etc. If so, the comparison of how fast ChatGPT cranks out words to a human writer is not an indicator of the machine's prospective ability to "outthink" us but rather of how it doesn't do so.
I've done some writing along similar lines and expect to do more. https://www.splicetoday.com/digital/the-specter-of-conscious-machines