Researcher Proposes Testing AI Consciousness by Replacing Brain Tissue with Transformers

Kevin Bass argues that the AI consciousness hypothesis could be empirically tested by augmenting or replacing living brain tissue with Transformers, building on conceptual groundwork by Chalmers. Critics note functional equivalence may make such tests inconclusive.

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