What's the difference between artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness? The difference is small enough for Daniel Dennett to warn against the deployment of "counterfeit people". Where the difference lies, at least as I read this article from Isaac Mao, is somewhere on the inside, echoing Thomas Nagel's idea that consciousness means that it is something that it 'feels like' to be something. A bat, say. This, presumably, would result in capacities an artificial intelligence doesn't have; Mao suggests that an AI can't be creative the way a human can. But my views align with Hume's, that consciousness is nothing more than experience, and that there's nothing in principle that would prevent an AI from having experiences.
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