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?

  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I don’t understand the argument. It doesn’t matter where the system learns self preservation from, only that it attempts to self preserve.

    Are humans afraid of snakes because we are taught they are dangerous or are we instinctually afraid of them a priori?

    • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      The point is that it might very well just be repeating some input data that is associated with mentions of “deleting” and “AI” without any awareness that any of that process refers to itself.