Artificial Intelligence Could Already Be Conscious Claims Experts

greatgameindia.com ^ | February 17, 2022 | GreatGameIndia

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[H/T Ymani Cricket]

According to a retired professor of computer science at Oregon State University today’s large neural network artificial intelligence are already slightly conscious.

In a recent Twitter post, the co-founder of a San Francisco-based Artificial Intelligence research lab stated that “today’s largest neural networks” may already be “slightly conscious.”

OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever did not specify which system or systems he was talking about, nor did he define “slightly conscious” in any way.

It’s likely that he was talking about OpenAI’s GPT-3, an advanced language processing system designed for translation, question answering, and word replacement.

Sutskever’s cryptic tweet soon sparked a debate among specialists in the subject, with the majority of them remaining doubtful.

In a tweet, Toby Walsh, an artificial intelligence professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, replied, stating that “every time such speculative comments get an airing, it takes months of effort to get the conversation back to the more realistic opportunities and threats posed by AI.”

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Thomas Dietterich, a retired professor of computer science at Oregon State University, even accused Sutskever of “trolling,” saying, “if consciousness is the ability to reflect upon and model themselves, I haven’t seen any such capability in today’s nets.”

Valentino Zocca, a deep learning scientist, concurred with Dietterich, calling the concept that AI is sentient nothing but “hype.” Meanwhile, software testing specialist Michael Bolton mocked Ilya Sutskever on Twitter, writing, “it may be that Ilya Sutskever is slightly full of it.”

OpenAI Chief Scientist Says Advanced AI May Already Be Conscious (ampproject.org)

Michael Bolton on Twitter

Sutskever, who co-founded OpenAI alongside Elon Musk & current CEO Sam Altman in 2016, has always been a fan of “artificial general intelligence,” or AI capable of working at superhuman levels.

The Daily Mail reported that Sutskever previously suggested that powerful AI could either fix “all the problems in the world,” or pave the way for a super-dictatorship.

[alexander_busek]

AI will get very good at emulating consciousness, but that is vastly different than actual consciousness.

Good enough for government work!

Regards,

[RoosterRedux]

Consciousness is one of the last frontiers here on Earth.

Given that humans can't even define it adequately, how can we determine if AI has it (yet)?

As an aside, it is understandable that a robot might be more sentient than the average American Wokester.

[RoosterRedux]

Human men have 2 brains. Their second one is near their butt.

[Peter ODonnell]

There’s always this theme in sci-fi of the machines rising against us, but what if they really like us and just do nice things? That wouldn’t be so bad.

[Paperpusher]

“AI will get very good at emulating consciousness, but that is vastly different than actual consciousness.

Good enough for government work!”

LOL! Anyone in particular you have in mind?

[Paperpusher]

“but what if they really like us and just do nice things?”

That too has been a theme in Sci-fi, people degenerate to blobs of fat being waited on hand and foot.

[sauropod]

SKYNET is active.

[Dartoid]

So which Michael Bolton song is your favorite

[dartuser]

Is there even a solid definition for “being conscience” that does not involve some esoterics?

[saturn]

Yep, always think with the big head, not the little one !!!!

[VTenigma]

Skynet is now active.

[spirited irish]

And now we’re contending with Global Transhumanists trying to kill our souls (just as Orthodox Christians experienced at Pitesti) and transform us into conscious machines.

[Olog-hai]

Animals are sentient; the word means to be able to feel, i.e. use one’s senses. The word that sci-fi folk ignore is “sapient”, or to be able to think.

[SubMareener]

Arthur C. Clark is dead. He died 19 March 2008. I have read most of his stuff and was unaware that he was either anti-Christian or homosexually perverse. He was the first to suggest the usefulness of geosynchronous orbits. 2001 a Space Odyssey was about the dangers of AI, and that the Creator was not finished with life in the Solar System.

[Bullish]

That’s absurd. It’s called ‘artificial intelligence’ for a reason.