In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.
Source: AI Will Never Be Conscious
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When I posed the suffering‑computer conundrum to a researcher seeking to build a conscious AI, he waved away the problem, explaining it could be offset with a simple fix to the algorithm: “There’s no reason we couldn’t just turn up the dial on joy.”
