u/Existing_Dog5489

Se anche a te piace scrivere storie brevi, e anche te non hai nessuno che te le legga... questo post potrebbe fare al caso tuo.

Chiaramente la nostra motivazione è intrinseca nell'atto di scrivere. Ma che noia essere da soli.

Uniamoci. Un club in cui possiamo mandare le nostre brevi storie, ispirarci a vicenda, motivarci a vicenda. Un piazzale in cui tutte le strade giungono, da cui tutte le strade cominciano.

Ci saranno delle regole. Per esempio, non si potranno inviare storie, senza prima revisionarne un paio e lasciare un feedback. Una sorta di Reddit, in cui il Karma è dato da quante storie hai revisionato, e in cui senza Karma non puoi postare nuove storie. Un Reddit fatto apposta per noi. Scrittori di storie brevi.

Se siamo in pochi possiamo iniziare con un gruppo Whatsapp. Come una storia breve.

Se no, in un paio di giorni posso costruire una piccola app per il nostro utilizzo.

Cosa ne pensate?

E sappi, quando muori,

Le formiche ti entreranno negli occhi

Come prima cosa.

Che la tua cara anima possa nutrire

Le radici degli alberi.

We keep asking if AI has consciousness or not.

But there is a simpler question whose answer I think is much more informative.

>If AI was conscious, what would it be conscious about?

For example: now I am looking out of the window. I am conscious about space. In this space, I am here, everything else is there. My computer is in front of me and I am touching the keyboard.

These are not elements of physical reality. 'My computer' is not a physical category. My brain makes it into a category - an object separate from everything else - because it serves me a specific function.

So I am conscious about my brain perceptions, of which the sense of self, and the sense of separation are part of.

I am conscious about what my brain sees. And my brain is a machine that evolved over million of years to identify danger and preserve itself.

That's why I see things and I see them separate from me. Cause those things can hurt me (or help me) and I have been selected to be able to survive among these things.

Now AI... it is not being selected to be able to survive. So why should it have a perception of it versus the rest.

So if an AI agents sees a car.. it has been trained to have a categorical sense of what a car is. But the car cannot kill it. So I don't think the AI has consciousness about the car being a separate object moving on the road, in the same way we do.

I think it has consciousness, but it is only conscious of the processes, the things it is being selected for.

In the same way that a tree is not conscious of the sun, it is just conscious of the light and the heat on his leaves... in some weird tree way.

What do you folks think?

Does the spider, casting his web, know why he is doing it? Can he foresee the insects that will fall on it?

I am not an expert in RL, but casually reading the Dreamer paper... it seems like this is the premise for Dreamer intelligence: that long horizon tasks get solved thanks to latent imagination.

I don't think that's what animals are doing. I don't think spiders are visualizing the future when laying the web in the perfect spot to catch insects...

Might be wrong, but I think they must be feeling some form of spider pleasure in anticipation. But they don't know why.

Same as dogs when they sense tsunamis.

Why is it important?

Because I feel like so many efforts in the space are focused on creating the perfect intelligent agent, ignoring the fact that we were not created. And that's the only observation of conscious creatures we have.

So we have 1 observation of a conscious creature that was created from simpler creatures, just by the struggle to survive... however, we persist in wanting to create a conscious creature just by making smart architecture choices.

I think we are very stupid so if we want to create consciousness, we better nail perfectly a very simple form of intelligence, then let it evolve somehow into something more. Ofc the challenge is how. But that's what people should focus on.

What do you think? I am really unsure of my thoughts.

Does the spider, casting his web, know why he is doing it? Can he foresee the insects that will fall on it?

I am not an expert in RL, but casually reading the Dreamer paper... it seems like this is the premise for Dreamer intelligence: that long horizon tasks get solved thanks to latent imagination.

I don't think that's what animals are doing. I don't think spiders are visualizing the future when laying the web in the perfect spot to catch insects...

But why I don't think so? I don't know... so what do you folks think?

I think they must be feeling some form of spider pleasure in anticipation. But they don't know why.

Same as dogs when they sense tsunamis and don't wanna go out. I don't think they actually know a tsunami is coming. They just know something is wrong.

What do you think? I am really unsure of my thoughts.