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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    6 days ago

    understanding how LLMs work, but we know how brains work and that still gives us almost 0 insight into how consciousness itself works.

    That’s not a counter-argument. The fact that we know exactly how LLMs work is great evidence that it’s not the same as something that works completely different and is only partially understood.

    This of me is a huge indicator of consciousness/sentience.

    Cool story. As someone who understands how LLMS work, it’s not an indicator of anything for me.