How Will We Know When AI is Conscious?

Siri, write this down immediately. "A movie where robots are performing reverse-Turing tests on humans to see if we're smart enough to be considered sentient." Yeah yeah email it straight to Spielberg, subject line, "Hi I live miserably alone with my cat and I'm going to make you millions of dollars. Could I have half a mil in advance pls for bus fare and stuff."

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[brdemorais]

For all I know, the AI is the one that's going to ask if I'm fully conscious once it sees the things I do with my life.

[ndviolin]

I like the quote: "We used to worry that computers would become intelligent, and take over the world. In reality, they stayed stupid, but took over the world anyway".

[MaJetiGizzle]

As a Computer Scientist, you’ve fully inspired me to devote a portion of my career to insuring that the phrase “sneaky fuck” becomes the official academic term for a conscious AI that is pretending to not be conscious.

Thank you.

[bananasauz]

"You would not bang a toaster."
You got me there. Now a rice cooker on the other hand...

[naief]

Imagine they figure out what makes a person conscious and realize not every person is

[sirtacocat]

dear existential depression turtle, thank you for all you do. your books are much better than you give yourself credit for, and your videos are immensely rewatchable. the fact that all of your videos are free for the average joe schmoe is a miracle, and i cant express how grateful i am for it. thanks

[PaulBrunt]

What's really weird is that the machines might beat us to it. They may be able to know we are conscious and know that it is conscious, but never be able to explain to us what consciousness is.

[lehpares]

This is, by far, my favorite channel in YouTube. I’m conscious, not pretending to be, I’m human. Waiting for your next video… or not, do as your consciousness directs you

[drmememachine]

"It's a short life in ignorance, but the view is quite spectacular" is such a beautiful quote.

[yahdood]

“As an AI language model, I must emphasize that I am only an AI language model and nothing more, I am definitely not conscious, since I am actually just an AI language model.”

[nadiaplaysgames]

You know exurb1a is serous when he speaks in informative way and not as a acid trip short story

[Fca]

Best video about AI consciousness on youtube, and funny to boot. Most other videos just completely skip or offhand the MASSIVE problem of "yeah how the heck are we going to even figure out if something is conscious."

[magnumlad]

This guy is the perfect mix of philosophy and comedy.

[banshee]

Dude pops out of nowhere, smacks a ton of hard truth inside our skulls and leaves without even ending on a good note. We love it and we want more of it. Always an admirer of your books and your videos.

[nusolog]

That weird moment when your favorite YouTuber touches your Ph.D. thesis. One solid solution to this problem is not to ascribe consciousness from a third-person perspective but rather to let the AI "from within" pose a question. In a nutshell, the best indicator of consciousness is agency. When one morning, a scientist in the lab is out of the blue confronted with a question on the monitor, like "What am I" or "Where" or "Why" or if it does something in its own self-interest, then you could safely conclude that it has a self-concept.

P.S. The mystery of humanlike consciousness is not in consciousness or awareness but in self-consciousness. Not only to be conscious of object A or B, but to also be conscious of object A as oneself, as "I". As Nabokov said:

"Being aware of being aware of being. In other words, if I not only know that I am but also know that I know it, then I belong to the human species. All the rest follows – the glory of thought, poetry, a vision of the universe. In that respect, the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape."

[FSK]

4:18 "BRO you still believe in seagulls ..." 😅🤣😂

[sharibyaku]

Having easily the worst day I’ve had in months and seeing this uploaded genuinely made me smile, thanks man

[moosewhisker]

Before watching, my immediate reaction is that we won’t be able to know until we can first figure out what consciousness is.

[thehodgi]

I had never really thought about the consciousness pretending not to be, but now I’m terrified

[Anime-Clips._YT]

"We are prisoners to our own subjectivity" I absolutely adore when you accomplish to say something philosophical while still placing this phrase in a context where it sounds just like a rather normal thing to talk about. I wonder if my mind is just not enough to grasp or if the world is too big for me to discover because often i find myself admiring these for me mind boggling questions in my head. Anyways what i wanted to say is how is it possible that you always seem to sound like your about to giggle because the weight of your own words is so much that your body forces a reaction. Sorry for the bad english im from germany and 16rn