So you wrote a whole paragraph but it's unclear whether you are agreeing
with me that consciousness is NOT just some mysterious byproduct of
intelligence, but is an essential source of intelligent actions because
it provides plans and evaluates planned actions and scenarios.
Brent
On 7/8/2024 7:28 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 9:28 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
/>I thought it was obvious that foresight requires consciousness.
It requires the ability of think in terms of future scenarios/
The keyword in the above is "think". Foresight means using logic to
predict, given current starting conditions, what the future will
likely be, and determining how a change in the initial conditions will
likely affect the future. And to do any of that requires
intelligence. Both Large Language Models and picture to video AI
programs have demonstrated that they have foresight ; if you ask them
what will happen if you cut the string holding down a helium balloon
they will tell you it will flow away, but if you add that the instant
string is cut an Olympic high jumper will make a grab for the dangling
string they will tell you what will likely happen then too. So yes,
foresight does imply consciousness because foresight demands
intelligence and consciousness is the inevitable byproduct of
intelligence.
/> in which you are an actor/
Obviously any intelligence will have to take its own actions in
account to determine what the likely future will be. After a LLM gives
you an answer to a question, based on that answer I'll bet an AI will
be able to make a pretty good guess what your next question to it will
be.
John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>
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