Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 1 of 2 - By Andy Masley

When people say AI can’t “really think,” Andy Masley argues they are often leaning on a picture of their own minds that doesn’t hold up: a little version of themselves in an inner theater, watching every thought go by. In the first of two parts, he runs a few experiments you can try on yourself, then works through split-brain patients, the hard problem of consciousness, and the leading scientific theories of the mind, to ask what thinking and understanding actually require, and whether any of it has to be conscious at all. * 00:00 - Introduction * 10:56 - How the human mind is different from our conception of it * 11:01 - Some examples of simple thought and understanding that don’t require consciousness * 16:30 - A lot of your understanding happens outside of consciousness * 19:45 - Our introspection and memory of our conscious thought are fallible * 27:16 - What about slow, careful thinking? * 29:14 - What phenomenal consciousness is * 46:21 - Access consciousness’s role in thinking * 47:15 - Global workspace theory * 50:42 - Higher-order theories * 52:08 - Attention schema theory * 53:51 - Predictive processing * 56:23 - Integrated information theory * 59:33 - These all seem to imply that the aspects of access consciousness important for thought could exist in machines * 01:00:24 - Any part of your mind that understands something is made up entirely of parts that don’t understand * 01:02:31 - Language, meaning, and consciousness * 01:10:20 - Conclusion * 01:16:39 - How this could all be wrong https://open.substack.com/pub/andymasley/p/why-i-believe-current-ai-models-can?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe