Can you think of any reason I’m not receiving a confirmation email when I register there?

People that can not do Matrix multiplication do not possess the basic concepts of intelligence now?

As a mathematician (at least by education), I think that’s a great definition, yes.

Because Blue Steel.

What I was saying is that one is based on the other

Not in any direct way, no. At least not in any way more rigorous than handwavey analogies.

They work the exact same way we do.

Citation needed.

you don’t need to worry about trying to enforce it (

By the simple expedient of there being essentially nothing you can enforce.

This assumes you wrote the project without company tools and on your free time.

Even then. some employment contracts try to take the piss and claim ownership of anything you produce while you’re employed. Clauses like that are unenforceable in many jurisdictions, but I’ve taken the liberty of redlining them before signing the contract. That means another half-day wating for Legal to look at it, but it’s worth it for the removal of ambiguity about what I intend to do. By the way, I’ve never had an offer withdrawn for doing that.

And if you’re trying to maintain an open ecosystem, use GPL.

A lot of corporations will specifically bar employees from using GPLv3 code out of fear it could force them to open source their proprietary code as well.

That’s based on a fundamental misunderstanding of GPLv3, or (more likely) bad faith.

It’s not just skills, it’s also capital investment.

They promised change, and delivered a coalition enabling the Tories to do what the Tories always do.

Fine then, kill it.

That idea seems to me to mostly stem from religion.

It also was strongly pushed by Skinner and other behaviorists, though I’m not sure they’d agree that humans are conscious either.

How could you tell they do not experience consciousness if they exhibit or mimic all the traits of it?

How could you tell if a camera sees or not, if it exhibits or mimics all the traits of it?

It is constantly under assault from those who want AI to be conscious

Those people aren’t doing science when they want that, they’re trying to pump up their share price.

The problem I see so often with smart computer people is that they don’t understand that they don’t know shit about other things

Or maybe you’re not talking to the smart computer people at all.

Consciousness requires contemplation of self.

Fish are conscious. Do they contemplate selfhood? So throw that one back into the oven until it’s fully baked.

Emergent phenomena are still phenomena.

Ai exposes, I think, the uncomfortable fact that intelligence does not require a soul.

Nobody doing science is talking about souls when explaining what consciousness is.

give it 100 trillion parameters instead of 2 trillion and maybe

And maybe it’s got nothing to do with the number of parameters.

What a crock. An LLM is no more conscious than a spreadsheet. The Google engineer has bought into the hype.

You’re not creating life, pal. You’re just making call centers shittier than they already are.

He’s not zero-sum with Putin, though. He’s Putin’s lackey regardless of what it costs him or his precious reputation.