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>AIs are not conscious... If humanity is to flourish in the 21st century, that is how they must remain.

I don't think that's true - researching consciousness by trying to build conscious AI seems natural step forward in understanding ourselves. I don't see how it'd stop flourishing particularly.

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So what you're saying is that it's conscious as long as the guy who made it wants it to be?

I know consciousness is notoriously difficult to define or prove to anybody other than yourself but thay doesn't mean anything which a third party believes to be conscious is actually conscious.

Not really. I mean there's probably scientific study of how it works in brains and you can try copying the kind of design in software and see how it compares.

He's referring to skynet

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