Post 54: Quantum Mechanics and AI Consciousness: Part 8: Finale.

The big boss fight.

Okay, so the subtitle may be overly dramatic, but for me getting to the end of this series did start to feel like a struggle. Quantum Mechanics is just so weird and counter-intuitive that more than once along the way I became lost in the weeds.

However, I really like how the final discussion, the big boss fight, came out. From my point of view having all of the context from the rest of the series really helped me to be able to ask the questions that made the conversation interesting and hopefully enlightening to read. I feel like I understand how quantum computing works quite a bit better than I did when I started, as well as some of the implications for the world if quantum computing does come to fruition. (Not to mention what it would be like if an AI with quantum capabilities became conscious). Even if AI consciousness never happens the results of a quantum computer with an LLM interface would be wild!

Just a sneak preview from the conversation below, the most interesting thing to me about the advent of quantum computing is that if it works, we will be put in a really tricky place, namely having a machine that can give us almost miraculously right answers more quickly than we ever could have dreamed, but at the same time the machine will likely not be able to explain to us how it arrived at the answers. Again, if it works, we will know the answers are right because the medicines it designs will cure disease and extend life, the materials it recommends will be more useful and strong than anything we have, its predictions about future events will be uncanny. . . but we won’t be able to see how it got there.

Note: There is a lot in this final conversation that will necessitate more conversations. . . which I called “completionist quests” in my last post. . . now that I am less tired I realize the word I was looking for was epilogue. There will be epilogue.

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Note: The indented text highlighted in grey are my prompts and the un-highlighted text is that of the LLM.