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Ahh, my apologies if I misinterpreted. Bingo. All of the behaviors one might associate with machine *consciousness* (rather than just skill due to massive speed) will *emerge* rather than be *produced*, and will almost certainly be a surprise, rather than expected. Even the idea that we will be able to recognize this emergence is unfounded - I suspect the first clue we will have of such an emergence is just massive power draw across computing environments. The fact that the naive expect a newly awakened machine consciousness to suddenly pop out “Hello, World!’ in English is really hilarious.

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