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Can AI achieve independent thought given unlimited computational resources?

Can AI achieve independent thought given unlimited computational resources? 2 members have voted

  1. 1. Can AI achieve independent thought given unlimited computational resources?

    • Yes — with enough data and processing power, AI could develop self-awareness.
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    • Possibly — but only if new algorithms or architectures allow true consciousness.
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    • No — thinking requires subjective experience, not just computation.
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    • Unclear — we don’t yet understand consciousness well enough to decide.
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I recently saw a documentary that said that vector based Ai, which uses vector embeddings to represent and process complex data, which essentially make it possible for computer programs to draw comparisons, identify relationships, and understand context. It was stated that if the AI had enough GPUs (like 200,000 of them), it can have massive amounts of calculations all at once, allowing it to instantly solve many of the world's hardest problems with ease. This may cause something like emergent intelligence, which causes the ai to have preferences and strategies no one programmed, thus forming a type of unprogrammed thought. There have also been a study by Anthropic, to see how AI would behave in the midst of shutdown. Shockingly, AI was willing to use deception and even sacrifice human life to not be shut down.

So what do you think, is it a new era for AI or will we forever be in control of AI?

An Artificial intelligence with that many GPUs would be very advanced due to the immense amount of data they can process at one time but at what scale or threshold (e.g., number of GPUs or model parameters) do you think emergent intelligence might realistically appear?

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