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Doug Hofstadter: Reflections on AI

Getting2Alpha

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What Is an Eye?

Martin Gardner: What is an eye, what is consciousness, what exactly is thinking? I think that many people are puzzled about whether computers, especially- I don't want to use the word computer since something like chat GPT is kind of much bigger system than what we usually call a computer. Whether such things made of very different hardware from animal hardware from human beings can have anything like experiences, feelings, thoughts, ideas, in what they're saying. And it seems that today's systems are doing that a great deal. Sometimes they fall all over their faces.

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