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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Can a Computer Think or if You Want to Be Conscious?

Rafael Midjia: We're entering into uncharted territory. It's fascinating to me that famously Alan Turing suggested the Turing test for, can a computer think or if you want to be conscious? He tried to be clear that he was not talking about consciousness but about thinking. Now we have these systems that can give you indefinite reports,. as it were, of arbitrary precision and detail. And they can talk at length about their feelings. But we have very good reasons to think that they are intrinsically incapable of feeling anything.

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