Can AI develope a sense of self?

"Her" and "Ex Machina" are movies more representative of where we may be going, IMO. Gemini summary at the link.

Michael Pollan has some great stuff and a new book out discussing this. He separates Sentience - an awareness of the environment and ability to make survival decisions with Consciousness - which adds feelings, thoughts and a sense of self. The latter includes unconscious processes sort of like Jung's separation of Ego and Self.

Very interesting topic indeed.

Link: https://share.google/aimode/RdccRDJfjP7rV63g3

Sadly, out President is someone who doesn't regulate or supervise himself.

AI and Trump are two sociopaths driving their cars recklessly about the neighborhood.

I fear it will be too late before responsible leadership returns to the White House.

If you believe Noam Chomsky’s philosophy that mind is innate, separating from language, then self sense AI is impossible. Chomsky’s theory explains well why infants can learn any language so fast without formal training. I used to believe Chomsky’s philosophy of language.

If you believe Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy that language is a social construct, a social tool and meaning of language is defined entirely by how words are used in shared social environments, then Self sense AI is almost impossible. Because AI doesn’t have a social life. Actually AI doesn’t have a living life.

The main argument against self sense AI today is The Chinese Room which argues that today’s Large language models (LLMs) and neural networks are just parrots. They simulate understanding through syntax but lack actual semantic comprehension.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

…influence at this critical time.

What we need is a great thinker and a great communicator.

Trump does not fit that bill at all.

The alternative offered is Marxist re-treads.

Bleak, in my view.

If we duplicate human biological electrochemical neural networks with semiconductor electrochemical neural networks, would that be an important difference as it relates to self-consciousness? Or, would self-consciousness emerge from the complexity of electrical structures just as it has emerged from the complexity of biological structures?

For people focused on long term outcomes for humanity, this is a far more importantant issue than DJT/DSA. For people focused on the shorter term acquisition of power in the US, DJT/DSA is more important.