AI Advances in Efficiency and Human-Likeness, But True Consciousness Still Lacking
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Recent advances in AI like ChatGPT use attention mechanisms to focus on important information, similar to human attentional processing. This makes them more efficient and human-like.
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Adding "needs" to AI systems to maintain homeostasis drives them to learn and adapt to their environment, avoiding failure. This also makes them more human-like.
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These advances allow AI systems to demonstrate empathy by detecting human mood and behavior changes. However, something still seems to be missing compared to human consciousness.
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AI systems lack the biological and physical aspects that drive needs and learning in humans derived from living in a complex world.
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While AI is advancing, conscious machines seem unlikely soon given differences like "common sense" that depend on human embodiment and life experience.