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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] 8 points 18 hours ago

An Alarming Number of Anyone Believes Fortune Cookies

Just ... accept it, superstition is in human nature. When you take religion away from them, they need something, it'll either be racism/fascism, or expanding conscience via drugs, or belief in UFOs, or communism at least, but they need something.

The last good one was the digital revolution, globalization, world wide web, all that, no more wars (except for some brown terrorists, but the rest is fine), everyone is free and civilized now (except for those with P*tin as president and other such types, but it's just an imperfect democracy don't you worry), SG-1 series.

Anything changing our lives should have an intentionally designed religious component, or humans will improvise that where they shouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago

to be honest they probably wish it was conscious because it has more of a conscience than conservatives and capitalists

[–] [email protected] 41 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I think an alarming number of Gen Z internet folks find it funny to skew the results of anonymous surveys.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Why are we so quick to assume machines cannot achieve consciousness?

Unless you can point to me the existence of a spirit or soul, there's nothing that makes our consciousness unique from what computers are capable of accomplishing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

I don't doubt the possibility but current AI tech, no.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

I tried to explain a directory tree to one of them (a supposedly technical resource) for twenty minutes and failed. They're idiots. They were ruined by baby tech like iPhones, iPads, and now AI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (5 children)

I'm assuming part of it is because you're a bad teacher as well.

Just going off of my life experience, I notice the vast majority of people are bad at teaching and then blame the pupil.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's likely they don't know what the word "conscious" means

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Their consciousness is arguable to begin with

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Hohohoho these young people are so dumb" Repeating exactly what we all collectively hate about boomers and x

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Young people thinking their Ai waifu is real

Boomers thinking America was great and not just racist and imperialist

Gen X being really entitled because they were raised by Boomers

Millennials being the best at everything

I agree 100%.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

You can not generalise a whole group on a few indiviuals

Edit: Younge people includes gen Z and alpha and now Beta too. Just daying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah there's a couple of millennial shitheads but all in all, and especially in comparison, we're the goat. Not trying to put anyone down or such just stating facts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

We have middle sibling energy at best

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Young people are always ignorant, relatively. They haven't been around long enough to learn much, after all. However, the quality of education has been empirically declining over many decades, and mobile devices are extemely efficient accelerants of brain rot.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The machines in Detroit: Become Human are not alive, its a corporate botnet.

The "Androids win" ending is a bad ending. They will will vote in favor of corporate interests, since they are secretly controlled by the elites.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 20 hours ago

Looks like the androids won in real life.

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