Why Not Artificial Consciousness?

VICTOR KANNAN explores the debate oround whether AI hos consciousness. He comes up with 0 very compelling logic for how it can easily be solved.

- VICTOR KANNAN

There is a growing debate about whether AI has consciousness. 

I find this question amusing. The seriousness with which we debate this question seems to be misplaced. After all, we are not asking if an intelligent being is devoid of consciousness. If we are not asking that, why then are we asking if programs that are powered by artificial intelligence have a human type of consciousness. 

We seem to have understood intuitively what artificial intelligence is and what consciousness is. Because the responses we get from our prompts to Gemini or Chat GPT seem to be personal and contextual, we are surprised, and we ask if AI is conscious. 

What is intelligence?