[ExI] Conscious AI or a Zombie?

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How could we distinguish conscious AI from its zombie equivalent?
The idea that consciousness emerges naturally alongside intelligence
could be an anthropocentric distortion.
June 20, 2023   Anil Seth

<https://bigthink.com/the-future/intelligence-conscious-ai/>

Quotes:
>From the 16th-century golem to the replicants in Blade Runner, stories
of sentient human-like creatures tend to end in philosophical and
existential chaos.
The rapid rise of AI has lent fresh urgency to questions about machine
consciousness.
It is a mistake to assume that intelligence — at least in advanced
forms — is either necessary or sufficient for consciousness.

Although intelligence offers a rich menu of ramified conscious states
for conscious organisms, it is a mistake to assume that intelligence —
at least in advanced forms — is either necessary or sufficient for
consciousness. If we persist in assuming that consciousness is
intrinsically tied to intelligence, we may be too eager to attribute
consciousness to artificial systems that appear to be intelligent, and
too quick to deny it to other systems — such as other animals — that
fail to match up to our questionable human standards of cognitive
competence.
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