Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: Would Consciousness Make an AI Behave Well?

Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: Would consciousness make an AI behave well?

I FOUND myself in a college library last week, surrounded by philosophers and experts on computer science: one participant, grinning behind his wild beard, placed his phone on the table and had it play a song written — both words and music

LLMs, Sentience: A Scientific Standard/Test to Measure AI Consciousness

Consciousness, from philosophy, is referred to as what it feels like to be, or that it feels like something to be. This is sometimes distilled into subjective experience. To obtain a standard measure, this definition has to be converted into equivalents in psychology for eventual parallels in neuroscience. The standard for consciousness is human. The basis of human consciousness is the brain. What are the components for consciousness in the brai…