Its a friend the way the nice waitress is a friend when you go eat out.
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If they mistake those electronic parrots for conscious intelligencies, they probably won't be the best judges for rating such things.
An alarming number of Hollywood screenwriters believe consciousness (sapience, self awareness, etc.) is a measurable thing or a switch we can flip.
At best consciousness is a sorites paradox. At worst, it doesn't exist and while meat brains can engage in sophisticated cognitive processes, we're still indistinguishable from p-zombies.
I think the latter is more likely, and will reveal itself when AGI (or genetically engineered smart animals) can chat and assemble flat furniture as well as humans can.
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Whatever, couldn't it also be that a technical consciousness will look rather different from what we assume? There are obviously less/none of some factors, ie emotional intelligence etc. But a tech super intelligence, if ever reached, may have a number of unexpected problems for us. We should concentrate on unexpected outcomes and establish safeguards.
I tried to explain a directory tree to one of them (a supposedly technical resource) for twenty minutes and failed. They're idiots. They were ruined by baby tech like iPhones, iPads, and now AI.
Anyone can understand a directory tree. Not everyone is smart enough to explain it.
They were designing functionality that contained directory trees and didn't understand directory trees. How is it my responsibility that this person is not qualified to do their own job?
If they designed a directory tree without knowing what a directory tree is, it sounds like they know what a directory tree is, they just don't know the word, and you can't explain the word properly.
They didn't "design a directory tree" either. They were designing screens for a thing that sits on top of a directory tree, and they didn't understand the underlying concept.
It was likely because they're used to the abstraction that iPhones and iPads provide, where the underlying directory structures are largely hidden from users.
An alarming number of people can't read over a 6th grade level.