AI megathread

I actually watched that video or one nearly like it.  Hyper complex content and I freely admit I "followed" it directionally, but its way beyond my technical expertise to have any sort of nuanced understanding.  A bit frightening in many ways as all prior computer software, while complex to varying degrees, was foundational algorithmically based.  And, thus, reducible.

I thought that ALL computer software, including generative AI's, is by definition algorithmically based and therefore at least in principle reducible, because at the absolute base any possible (except for quantum computers) digital processor is just executing programmed machine code extremely rapidly. Though any computer is doing this algorithmic process incredibly fast, it still is really just manipulating binary 1s and 0s beween various registers using machine coding to command things like "load register A from memory address B", "add register A to register B", "multiply register C by register D", divide, compute the 3rd root of the contents of memory address Y using an algorithm, etc. etc.

It seems to me that this incredibly intense and rapid process is what is really going on at the bottom, at the foundation, inside the generative AI multiple computer processors when it is producing its apparently intelligent and creative response through what is basically statistical processing of training data. So it very much seems to be that all computers are nothing but algorithmic processors at heart and are in principle utterly incapable of ever becoming conscious.