[ExI] Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat

Subject: Re: [ExI] Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming

Spike, given how your brain works, and given as you know that porn has led
the commercialization of a lot of tech over the decades (such as
contributing to VHS winning over Betamax), I have to ask: does this thread's
title inspire any thoughts for getting funding and user adoption to develop
seemingly conscious AI, or the specific path by which the first such AI
might emerge?
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Hard to say, Adrian, but I am reprocessing every idea on the subject after
viewing a video the other day and realizing, well into the experience, that
the video was AI-generated.  I was several hou... eh... ahem... min...
SECONDS!  I was merely SECONDS into the video before I realized there were
no actual models making a scant living at the once-scandalous trade of
creating video porn.

On your question... I don't know.  I have no particular insight into that
question, however... doesn't it just feel like everything is coming together
from all directions simultaneously for not just human level but superhuman
AI?  It does to me.

spike