Bad AI Consciousness Takes Bingo - By Henry Shevlin

Writing at 30,000 feet between bags of pretzels, philosopher Henry Shevlin has had enough of the hot takes. “It’s just matrix multiplication.” “It’s just predicting the next word.” “A simulation of a hurricane doesn’t get anyone wet.” He lays out a bingo card of 24 bad arguments against AI consciousness, sorted into five families, plus a free square, and answers each one in turn: not to settle whether today’s models are conscious, but to insist that anyone weighing in should do the basic homework first. * 00:00 - Introduction * 05:15 - 1. Nothing but… * 08:15 - 2. Missing ingredients * 11:04 - 3. False analogies * 12:53 - 4. Evidence games * 16:04 - 5. Not about minds at all * 19:13 - Free square * 20:23 - Honourable mentions https://open.substack.com/pub/polytropolis/p/bad-ai-consciousness-takes-bingo?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe