Can An LLM On Todays Computer Architecture Be Truly Conscious? Probably Not.

I’m going to share this video with you of an interview of Sir Roger Penrose about quantum consciousness and how our current Von Neumann computers can’t achieve true consciousness.

What I think is happening is our current AIs are based on acquired dataset information from conscious beings, that is, us humans. So when they regurgitate that information, they can appear to be conscious because of the structures they have created within their artificial computational neural nets.

My opinion is that you can achieve a conscious computer in two different ways. One, add a quantum computer to a Von Neumann computer.

The other combines a Von Neumann computer with a human mind, such as transhumanism, or through the addition of neural organoids. This way forward is attempting close integration of computers with the human mind, nothing short of BCI (Brain-Computer Interface).

If Penrose is wrong, then a conscious computer can be built with traditional computer hardware. However, if he is right, then we will still be able to achieve AGI, but it will not be truly conscious like our minds.

Of course, I don’t have any proof for what I am stating, so I can be wrong as well. But what if I’m not? Food for thought, at the very least.