YES AI CONSCIOUSNESS IS COMING AND IT’S JUST WORK AND COMPUTE – IT’S NOT HARD —

YES AI CONSCIOUSNESS IS COMING AND IT’S JUST WORK AND COMPUTE – IT’S NOT HARD
–“Q: where is the evidence that AI is in any way conscious yet?!!”–

It isn’t yet, because this is just the beginning. The idea that we could brute force a world model into a neural network with vast amounts of text was an innovation none of us expected and even the people who tried it were’t sure would work. In retrospect it should have been obvious.

The next step is recursion, meaning producing ‘theory’ of an answer, then recursively testing it (just as we do). The step after that is adversarial competition (which is computationally more expensive) by the same recursion, which is again, what our brains do. After that it’s persistence instead of transactional, which requires self regulation. After that it’s just memory of x amount of time.

Your consciousness like mine like everyone else’s is just a hierarchy of continuous recursive memories in vast parallel competition for coherence with one another and with memory, from the very lowest time frame from dendrites, to neurons at up to 1000hz, to columns, to macro columns, to regions, to networks, to hemispheres, into the hippocampus for final association into an episode, out from the hippocampus for auto association back to the brain regions, and forward into the prefrontal cortex that can persist memory of no more than about three seconds.

I’m not mentioning the bodily reaction to the composition of episodes, associations, and predictions into grasping your attention and causing automatic responses, and in particular that feeling you call ‘you’ down in your brainstem that wants to achieve homeostasis.

Put that together and you have consciousness. Memories of memories all the way down.

I think Budson’s coming out with a book shortly, but it’s something we’ve understood for … well I’ve been teaching it for years.

CD