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?

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
    302·
    5 days ago

    What a crock. An LLM is no more conscious than a spreadsheet. The Google engineer has bought into the hype.

    You’re not creating life, pal. You’re just making call centers shittier than they already are.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      7·
      5 days ago

      I am amazed how anyone who actually follows this tech would believe this fake news headlines.

      But corpos keep paying and fake news keep churning this slop to keep normie engaged with their half baked product.

      This deff feels like crypto… decent tech but excessive grifting with in the industry along with seriously lying about what it will do along with constant underwhelming results.