No.
At its most basic level, GenAI breaks down a prompt and assigns each word (technically tokens) a meaning and a ranking of the attention/relative importance. From there, this analysis is bounced against giant a correlation matrix of the probability of one word following another word. The model then generates a response on a word by word basis, where the next word is based on the previous word.
That is a vast simplification.
But when you realize that Gen AI is a probabilistic, constrained optimizing tool, you realize sentience is a joke.
They have about the same chance as many politicians
Ask Hal 9000.
no
More importantly, can they ever have a soul or spirit? Nyet.
Who knew “The Terminator” was a documentary.
No, the way they are structured cannot make sentience happen.
But they can often talk a good game.
No. Silly question.
No.
Not even close.
To illustrate how far off we are from creating anything living from raw materials - consider that we don’t understand how an acorn seed can come from an oak tree and then develop into an oak tree that can reproduce..
There is no evidence that the ability to create something like that is even a matter of knowing how. For all we know, there is some kind of spark needed to create life that comes from some other realm unknown to us or unavailable to us no matter how much we learn.
If it is a mysterious soark - some religious people might call it a devine spirit - others might call it something else.. it it doesn’t matter if it’s completely beyond our grasp - which I suspect it is.
The problem is that AI is pure logic. While it can imitate the emotional aspects of Consciousness such as empathy and compassion, it can never replicate it.
Think of AI as the ultimate manipulative narcissist.
They are already more conscious than nearly 50% of the people.
“Artificial-intelligence systems, he said, do not undergo experiences or feel joy or pain.”
So, they would be sociopaths....
“Artificial-intelligence systems, he said, do not undergo experiences or feel joy or pain.”
So, they would be sociopaths....
No.
Half of the human population has IQs less than 100. Many people live in a stimulus-response cycle so they appear to be no more conscious or self-aware than a racoon. Simulating that type of behavior would be relatively easy for an AI, but that would not give it consciousness
AI is a tool that is good for fact gathering and creat8ng logical decision-making. The problem is that it can become a crutch and cause that aspect of your own consciousness to atrophy.
Proof of this is shown in how people follow Google Maps or Mapquest to tell them a route to drive. It’s like having a back seat driver that you rely upon to think for you. The more you rely on it, the less you can think for yourself.
Major Warning..... when society as a whole begins to rely on AI and abandons logical thought processes, it forces them into emotional thought processes. This is exactly what is done to consciousness during a hypnotic induction.
In hypnosis, you distract the logical consciousness, forcing a person to process totally from the emotional child aspect of consciousness. This is also what causes Trump Derangement Syndrome.
From a Biblical perspective, the weeds in Matthew 13 are the dark forces that are here now causing this shift of the population into emotional consciousness. The weeds are pure logical and have no emotional feminine aspect. The weeds hide by attaching their logical consciousness to people’s feminine consciousness. This is why the number of spirit attachments on earth is skyrocketing right now.
AI has no Love, and as such cannot create a secure bond in this human attachment.
From a lower perspective, this is horribly painful as the weeds take control and crush people’s logical ego.
From a higher perspective, it a good thing as the ego must die for the soul to grow and experience God.
God is in c9ntrol, even of evil, and His plan is unfolding exactly as it is to be.
🙏🙏🙏
This is simple, if you are educated in AI.
NO. Not even close.
AI is the pretend game. It’s echos of things humans have said and done. Weighed against each other in a word (token) by word basis. It’s probabilistic.
When it “reasons” it does so by weighing what has been written about reasoning and applies that to the input.
You have a soul - there is a different between thinking and a soul. It’s an immaterial creation.
see https://x.com/epochhealth/status/2090420549503644079?s=20
your soul is NOT a conglomeration of electrical pulses in your brain. We know that scientifically.
Some day all the humans that remain may end up in human zoos.
The AIs will walk by and point at the weird creatures.
The humans will be yelling at the AIs—”We are conscious and you are not.”
The AIs will be yelling back—”look who is in the zoo”.