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?

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Pseudo-scientific grifting.

    It’s literally just people trying to raise money by using misleading and humanizing words like “scheming” and “thinking” when it’s just a computer puking out words.

    Just the fact that they label computer processes as “thinking” indicates how far removed from science this is. It’s just a function built from “”“big”“” data. This is like marketing versus compsci101.