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An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious (www.pcmag.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

An alarming number of Hollywood screenwriters believe consciousness (sapience, self awareness, etc.) is a measurable thing or a switch we can flip.

At best consciousness is a sorites paradox. At worst, it doesn't exist and while meat brains can engage in sophisticated cognitive processes, we're still indistinguishable from p-zombies.

I think the latter is more likely, and will reveal itself when AGI (or genetically engineered smat animals) can chat and assemble flat furniture as well as humans can.

(On mobile. Will add definition links later.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'd rather not break down a human being to the same level of social benefit as an appliance.

Perception is one thing, but the idea that these things can manipulate and misguide people who are fully invested in whatever process they have, irks me.

I've been on nihilism hill. It sucks. I think people, and living things garner more genuine stimulation than a bowl full of matter or however you want to boil us down.

Oh, people can be bad, too. There's no doubting that, but people have identifiable motives. What does an Ai "want?"

whatever it's told to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

If they mistake those electronic parrots for conscious intelligencies, they probably won't be the best judges for rating such things.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

Same generation who takes astrology seriously, I’m shocked

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

I wish philosophy was taught a bit more seriously.

An exploration on the philosophical concepts of simulacra and eidolons would probably change the way a lot of people view LLMs and other generative AI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve been hearing a lot about gen z using them for therapists, and I find that really sad and alarming.

AI is the ultimate societal yes man. It just parrots back stuff from our digital bubble because it’s trained on that bubble.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

Chatgpt disagrees that it's a yes-man:

To a certain extent, AI is like a societal “yes man.” It reflects and amplifies patterns it's seen in its training data, which largely comes from the internet—a giant digital mirror of human beliefs, biases, conversations, and cultures. So if a bubble dominates online, AI tends to learn from that bubble.

But it’s not just parroting. Good AI models can analyze, synthesize, and even challenge or contrast ideas, depending on how they're used and how they're prompted. The danger is when people treat AI like an oracle, without realizing it's built on feedback loops of existing human knowledge—flawed, biased, or brilliant as that may be.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago

Lots of people lack critical thinking skills

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Why are you booing them? They're right.

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