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?

  • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 个月前

    I don’t believe that consciousness strictly exist. Probably, the phenomenon emerges from something like the attention schema. Ai exposes, I think, the uncomfortable fact that intelligence does not require a soul. That we evolved it, like legs with which to walk, and just as easily as robots can be made to walk, they can be made to think.

    Are current LLMs as intelligent as a human? Not any LLM I’ve seen, but give it 100 trillion parameters instead of 2 trillion and maybe.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 个月前

      Ai exposes, I think, the uncomfortable fact that intelligence does not require a soul.

      These kinds of statements are completely pseudo-scientific.

      “AI” doesn’t exist. It doesn’t “expose” anything about “intelligence” or “souls”.

      • peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 个月前

        Really? I mean, it’s melodramatic, but if you went throughout time and asked writers and intellectuals if a machine could write poetry, solve mathmatical equations, and radicalize people effectively t enough to cause a minor mental health crisis, I think they’d be pretty surprised.

        LLMs do expose something about intelligence, which is that much of what we recognize as intelligence and reason can be distilled from sufficiently large quantities of natural language. Not perfectly, but isn’t it just the slightest bit revealing?

        • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          1 个月前

          There is a phenomenon called Emergence, in which something complex has properties or compartments that its parts don’t have on their own.

          In programming, we can see that software displays properties or behaviors that its languages alone don’t have.

          If an AI demonstrates true consciousness, a major change will occur in all branches, including law and philosophy.