Seems like researchers are getting uncomfortably good at mimicking consciousness- so much so that it’s beginning to make me question the deepest parts of my own brain. Perhaps the difference between AI and myself is that I am only prompted by outward stimuli? It seems as though that is what makes the intelligence “artificial”
Christ even as I type this, my thought processes mimic, for example, deepseek’s exposed deep think capabilities. Fuck idk if I’ll be able to unsee it. Seems like the only thing we have on it right now is emotion and even that seems to be in danger
My final takeaway from all of this is that we are in hell
That’s exactly where I am on this! I used to think maybe humans were special, then I thought maybe animals were special, then when all this AI stuff started coming about it becomes very easy to follow that train of thought into thinking wow, guess they made computers conscious too like animals, but that last bit pretty much really is just marketing bullshit.
The AI technology that exists now is pretty amazing in that it can now easily trick people into thinking it is conscious or works similar to the mind of a living organism, but it’s literally only designed to appear that way, not actually be that way. It’s all incredibly complex stuff, though. So much so that I still kinda do have hope we’ll get there eventually.