Fascinating piece about how George Eliot seemingly wrote about AI. I disagree with this assertion, though:
Put simply: intelligence is not the same as consciousness.
… But, for the avoidance of doubt, they are not the same thing. My own (simplified) view is that intelligence is the ability to achieve goals and consciousness is the phenomenon through which we experience qualia …
To my mind and understanding of the terms, there’s no intelligence without consciousness.
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