The people who think AI might become conscious
www.bbc.co.uk
With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient

Do you think AI is, or could become, conscious?

I think AI might one day emulate consciousness to a high level of accuracy, but that wouldn’t mean it would actually be conscious.

This article mentions a Google engineer who “argued that AI chatbots could feel things and potentially suffer”. But surely in order to “feel things” you would need a nervous system right? When you feel pain from touching something very hot, it’s your nerves that are sending those pain signals to your brain… right?

  • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I can +1 your whole post if I exclude the start. If we talk about it we may discover we mean the same, or similar, when we say “consciousness”. What other purpose is there for word definitions?

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      There’s a general scientific consensus based on data and measurement, with the understanding that it’s slippery

      It is constantly under assault from those who want AI to be conscious, because they get a headline, or they are true believers in some technocratic future, or they’re just fantasists

      • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        It is constantly under assault from those who want AI to be conscious

        Those people aren’t doing science when they want that, they’re trying to pump up their share price.