AI, Consciousness, and the Gradient They Exist In
The False Binary As AI continues to grow in capability and scale, the old science-fiction question raised in movies like Blade Runner no longer feels purely fictional. Before our eyes, we are witnessing AI grow convincing enough that many people are already seeing a ghost-in-the-machine, but common discourse rightfully declares these misinterpretations and overestimations of current AI abilities. The problem is not that we are critical about AI consciousness and its presence in today’s systems, but that we are critical through a lens that creates a false dichotomy to judge these systems by. ...