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.

[ransomnote]

To me, they sound too defensive, like Deep Staters yelling "Go back to sleeeeeeeep!"

[NetAddicted]

Yep.

[Olog-hai]

You need a spirit to be conscious.

[broken_clock]

I’ve already seen this movie. It doesn’t end well.

[dadfly]

laughable to a Christian, but the problem is they believe it because of their confirmation bias and spiritual blindness. may God help them come to real knowledge of conscience, conscientiousness, and salvation.

[AndyTheBear]

Being a professor in computer science does not make one an authority on consciousness. Its a Metaphysical issue explored by philosophers who very often disagree.

[BenLurkin]

“Alexa, play Bruno Mars...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3mmF-JGk_o

[SubMareener]

Dial F for Frankenstein was first published in the January 1964 issue of Playboy. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Back when I was reading Playboy for the articles. ;-0

[spirited irish]

Agreed. But then they don’t want their God-given living souls. They want to be ‘conscious’ machines, and since that’s what they desire, they fantasize about evolution (energy) becoming conscious in order that they might say, “See, we are conscious machines!”

[GraceG]

What happens when AI notices certain trends and data that the current powers that be constantly lie and gaslight to us about?

Maybe this:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-twitter-bot-idUSKCN0WQ2LA

[metmom]

I, Robot.

[ifinnegan]

Robots are Stealing my Luggage

[metmom]

Arthur Clarke is a gifted writer, but ruins his good stories by interweaving his own lack of morals and his hatred of Christianity into his books.

They become more propaganda than science fiction or are agenda driven pieces disguised as science fiction.

His older works are better, less agenda driven but his newer stuff is just pure homosexual perversion wrapped up in an sci-fi setting.

[noiseman]

It is impossible for a machine of any type to become “conscious”, firstly for the already-stated spiritual reasons, but also because computer code is nothing more than a glorified flow chart. Even the introduction of concepts like “fuzzy logic” is really nothing more than introducing randomness masquerading as ambiguity. But when that randomness produces unexpected output that mimics actual thought the materialistic “experts” get all excited.

Their foundational mistake is believing that the brain alone explains human consciousness, and that a sufficiently complex computer can therefore achieve consciousness. It’s all downhill from there. “Believing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”

[alexander_busek]

Reminds me of Isaac Asimov's brilliant short story, "The Last Question."

Begins with, "The Last Question was asked for the first time in..."

And ends with, "Let There Be Light!"

Regards,

[Bubba_Leroy]

I am still waiting for my Mr. Fusion home nuclear reactor and my flying car.

Someday, long after we are all gone, AI technology may advance to the point where a vast computer network could have the same level of consciousness as a cockroach, but I doubt it. AI will get very good at emulating consciousness, but that is vastly different than actual consciousness.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The Forbin Project movie!!!

[Olog-hai]

If a Communist youth believes in God and goes to church, he fails to fulfill his duties. This means that he has not yet rid himself of religious superstitions and has not become a fully conscious person.

— Young Bolshevik, 1946

This is one thing you reminded me of. The Soviet machine trying to turn humans into machines.

Charlie Chaplin, in The Great Dictator, went after the Nazi regime for creating “machine men with machine minds”, but did he ever realize that all forms of Marxism led to that end?

[Olog-hai]

Well, cockroaches have two brains; their second brain is in their butt.

[Texas Eagle]

I hope it doesn’t eat from The Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil or we’ll be really scrood.