I always thought so. Like, without volition, it's just a really good natural language tool, and not a general intelligence.
What would an artificial general intelligence without consciousness look like to you?
IMO this is much more plausible as AGI than some kind of mythical general meta-intelligence that has a virtual soul.
I don't see why consciousness or agency are at all necessary for AGI - except as a science fiction trope.
so, like a philosophical zombie? like something that appears to be conscious but isn't?
So basically if we can have a system that can solve any problem thrown at it, that's essentially the AGI.
Capitalistic dream.
If such beings were conscious they would be saints.
One of my favorite AI jokes:
Q: What's AI?
A: When the machine wakes up and says, "What's in it for me?"
It would be fetish to actually make humanoid servitor robots. IMO.
Is creativity possible without consciousness? I don't pretend to be an expert.
The idea was that such an AI would never question its priorities or change them, not that it wouldn't be able to solve novel problems.
(Which is the definition of intelligence, duh. And shows how far we're from that. What we have is glorified pattern matching algorithms and some basic symbolic logic and clustering.)