The people who think AI might become conscious
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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?

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Emergent phenomena are still phenomena.

    Ai exposes, I think, the uncomfortable fact that intelligence does not require a soul.

    Nobody doing science is talking about souls when explaining what consciousness is.

    give it 100 trillion parameters instead of 2 trillion and maybe

    And maybe it’s got nothing to do with the number of parameters.