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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?

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The Human Brain Is Like a Power Station

The human brain is the equivalent of effectively like starting with a power station and then never being able to turn it off as you had to evolve. You can make that the modified Turing test, Patrick's modified Turing test. The robot doesn't have to convince you that it's a linguistic, you know, of its linguistic ability. It has to feel bad that the conversation went poorly. I like that as the judgment of whether or not we've reached AGI sentience.

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