"AI Can Mimic Emotion Without Having It": Debate Over Simulation vs Consciousness
gerardsans · x · 2026-09-22
gerardsans restates his position: current AI is a probabilistic machine that mimics human behavior found in books and text — it can simulate behavior without possessing it. AI video can render realistic emotion while feeling none, and the same applies to chatbots and agents. Using video generation as an example, he argues lifelike character likeness changes nothing about the system's ontology: no consciousness anywhere, just a convincing illusion from pixel sampling.
More from AGI Musings
- Jensen Huang: Hold AI companies accountable under existing law before doomsday legislation — ccerrato147 · 2026-09-22
- Weekly AI Recap: Helix 2.5 Lifts Household Robot Success to 56%, World Models Meet Robot Control — TheTuringPost · 2026-09-22
- 90s multi-agent systems offer a lesson: model memory as belief, not centralized truth — nptacek · 2026-09-22
- Why Amodei and Altman fear AI risk while Zuckerberg and Huang dismiss it: a decade of thinking apart — trevposts · 2026-09-22
- Double squeeze: fewer junior jobs, and AI tools quietly block juniors from becoming seniors — ziv_ravid · 2026-09-22
- Stanford data: employment for 22-25 year-olds in AI-exposed jobs fell ~13% — ziv_ravid · 2026-09-22