• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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    1 month ago

    if I’m wrong list a task that a conscious being can do that an unconscious one is unable to accomplish.

    These have been listed repeatedly: love, think, understand, contemplate, discover, aspire, lead, philosophize, etc.

    There are, in fact, very few interesting or important things that a non-thinking entity can do. It can make toast. It can do calculations. It can design highways. It can cure cancer. It can probably fold clothes. None of this shit is particularly exciting. Just more machines doing what they’re told. We want a machine that can tell us what to do, instead. That’s AGI. We don’t know how to build such a machine, at least given our current understanding of mathematical logic, theoretical computer science, and human cognition.