"Intelligence and consciousness are different things. Intelligence is mainly about doing: solving a crossword puzzle, assembling some furniture, navigating a tricky family situation, walking to the shop — all involve intelligent behavior of some kind. A useful general definition of intelligence is the ability to achieve complex goals by flexible means. There are many other definitions out there, but they all emphasize the functional capacities of a system: the ability to transform inputs into outputs, to get things done.
An artificially intelligent system is measured by its ability to perform intelligent behavior of some kind, though not necessarily in a humanlike form. The concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI), by contrast, explicitly references human intelligence. It is supposed to match or exceed the cognitive competencies of human beings. (There’s also artificial superintelligence, ASI, which happens when AI bootstraps itself beyond our comprehension and control. ASI tends to crop up in the more existentially fraught scenarios for our possible futures.)
Consciousness, in contrast to intelligence, is mostly about being. Half a century ago, the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously offered that “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something it is like to be that organism.” Consciousness is the difference between normal wakefulness and the oblivion of deep general anesthesia. It is the experiential aspect of brain function and especially of perception: the colors, shapes, tastes, emotions, thoughts and more, that give our lives texture and meaning. The blueness of the sky on a clear day. The bitter tang and headrush of your first coffee.
AI systems can reasonably lay claim to intelligence in some form, since they can certainly do things, but it is harder to say whether there is anything-it-is-like-to-be ChatGPT."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/
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