Test for Machine Consciousness Has an Audience Problem

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This proposal seems to test whether an AI has a human-like consciousness, while ignoring the possibility that an AI has an experience of its own self that is really different from our own.

The article seems to have forgotten that the Turing Test isn’t really a test, but a tautology: Turing was saying that if a machine can converse like a human, then it is intelligent, because the most fundamental aspect of human intelligence is our ability to communicate.

How can machine consciousness cannot be different from human consciousness? How can we say that when we cannot even define consciousness.

Exactly. You cannot create a convincing test for what you cannot define.

So, this proposed test is just a thought experiment demonstrating the pointlessness of the question. At least I hope that was the intent. If they really thought they had something, that would just be sad.

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