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Computers are electrical automatons that process binary signals and little else. Without a human at the end of the chain to interpret these signals (whatever representation they’ve been given), there is no meaning whatsoever.

So an AI that simply recycles its own input ad infinitum might produce something but it won’t be meaningful to us humans. Hence, it’s unlikely to be useful apart from the novelty of it.



What is it about humans that makes only them capable of meaning? And how would you define meaning here?




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