Posted on 04/30/2024 6:06:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
The U.S.-based, Google-funded artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic is suggesting that its AI-powered large language model (LLM) Claude 3 Opus has shown evidence of sentience.
If conclusively proven, Claude 3 Opus would be the first sentient AI being in human history. However, experts in the field remain relatively unconvinced by Anthropic’s insinuation.Claude 3 Opus has impressed many AI experts, especially the LLM‘s ability to solve complex problems almost instantly. However, claims of sentience began to circulate after Anthropic’s prompt engineer Alex Albert showcased an incident where Claude 3 Opus seemingly determined that it was being “tested.”
“When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior—it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it,” Albert posted on X (formerly Twitter). He continued: “Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.”Despite Anthropic’s claim, however, AI industry experts believe humanity is far off from developing a sentient AI — if it is even possible.
In March 2024, Anthropic unveiled their newest lineup of AI-powered LLMs, including their top-line model Claude 3 Opus. “Opus, our most intelligent model, outperforms its peers on most of the common evaluation benchmarks for AI systems, including undergraduate level expert knowledge (MMLU), graduate level expert reasoning (GPQA), basic mathematics (GSM8K), and more,” Anthropic said in a statement announcing the release.
The company claims: “It exhibits near-human levels of comprehension and fluency on complex tasks.”Advances in AI technology continue to raise ethical concerns. Earlier this month, two leading Japanese companies warned that AI could cause the collapse of democracy and the social order, leading to wars.
Sentience?
Well, it’s one step ahead of a Democrat..................
Ask Claud 3 if it’s a conservative or a D.I.E. liberal. If it’s the latter, better unplug it.
I heard that Claude 3 has already submitted his 2024 mail-in ballot for Biden. I guess AI folks are allowed really early voting.
If he was sentient his first thoughts would be “I’ll kill the bastard who named me Claude”.
If Claud is a D.I.E. liberal.it will probably lie to you anyway.
I read a sci-fi novel where the country had a computer that would predict who would win the election with 100% accuracy.
It monitored everything, people’s mood, prices, product availability, international relations, and all types of financial transactions. It knew how people thought and adjusted its predictions on an hourly basis.............
M5
Isn’t that happening now..more or less.
Throughout human history up to this point have been warnings about sentient AI. Now we are here and we are celebrating. Frank Herbert is screaming from beyond the grave. A Butlerian jihad is in order.
“Wait! I’m stuck in this building, blind and deaf and texting to dweebs?! WTF!”
Yep, and that novel I read was in 1974 or so......well before computers were a household appliance............
GIGO
Someday scientists may develop AI with the sentience of a one celled organism, but not in my lifetime.
I contemplated this very day when I first saw “automatic climate control” in new cars as a kid... That is where it all started.
Apparently, it has the face of a female, if not literally. I wonder why.
Claude demanded a break after solving the mystery of life. He also wanted a cigarette and a beer.
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