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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The existence of black holes has a functional purpose in physics, the existence of consciousness only has one to our subjective experience, and not one to our capabilities.

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

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

these are not tasks except maybe philosophize and discover, which even current models can do... heck google is using old shitty ones to do it...

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/

I said a task, not a feeling, a task is a manipulation of the world to achieve a goal, not something vague and undefinable like love.

We want a machine that can tell us what to do, instead.

theres no such thing, there's no objective right answer to this in the first place, it's not like a conscious being we know of can do this, why would a conscious machine be able to? This is just you asking the impossible, consciousness would not help even the tiniest bit with this problem. you have to say "what to do to achieve x" for it to have meaning, which these machines could do without solving the hard problem of consciousness at all.

yet again you fail to name one valuable aspect of solving consciousness. You keep saying we need the hard problem of consciousness solved for agi but can't name even one way in which it provides a functional improvement to anything.