'Enough talk on AI consciousness — go build digital beings' sparks debate
nptacek · x · 2026-09-01
Agent developer icodeagents complains that amid endless debates over artificial consciousness, only a handful of people are actually building "digital beings," telling onlookers to go build something and prove their claims — a call to move the AI consciousness debate from philosophy to empirical construction.
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