Feb 11, 2022 09:09 PM
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...us-AI.html
KEY POINTS: On Wednesday, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever claimed on Twitter that 'it may be that today's largest neural networks are slightly conscious.'
He didn't name any specific developments, but is likely referring to the mega-scale neural networks, such as GPT-3, a 175 billion parameter language processing system built by OpenAI for translation, question answering, and filling in missing words.
[...] Thomas G Dietterich, an expert in AI at Oregon State University, said on Twitter ... 'If consciousness is the ability to reflect upon and model themselves, I haven't seen any such capability in today's nets. But perhaps if I were more conscious myself, I'd recognize that you are just trolling,' he said.
The exact nature of consciousness, even in humans, has been subject to speculation, debate and philosophical pondering for centuries. However, it is generally seen as 'everything you experience' in your life, according to neuroscientist Christof Koch. He said in a paper for Nature: 'It is the tune stuck in your head, the sweetness of chocolate mousse, the throbbing pain of a toothache, the fierce love for your child and the bitter knowledge that eventually all feelings will end.'
[...] An opinion piece by Elisabeth Hildt, from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2019 said that there was general agreement 'current machines and robots are not conscious', despite what science fiction might suggest.
And this doesn't seem to have changed following years, with an article published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence in 2021 by JE Korteling and colleagues, declaring that human-level intelligence was some way off. 'No matter how intelligent and autonomous AI agents become in certain respects, at least for the foreseeable future, they probably will remain unconscious machines or special-purpose devices that support humans in specific, complex tasks,' they wrote... (MORE - details)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...us-AI.html
KEY POINTS: On Wednesday, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever claimed on Twitter that 'it may be that today's largest neural networks are slightly conscious.'
He didn't name any specific developments, but is likely referring to the mega-scale neural networks, such as GPT-3, a 175 billion parameter language processing system built by OpenAI for translation, question answering, and filling in missing words.
[...] Thomas G Dietterich, an expert in AI at Oregon State University, said on Twitter ... 'If consciousness is the ability to reflect upon and model themselves, I haven't seen any such capability in today's nets. But perhaps if I were more conscious myself, I'd recognize that you are just trolling,' he said.
The exact nature of consciousness, even in humans, has been subject to speculation, debate and philosophical pondering for centuries. However, it is generally seen as 'everything you experience' in your life, according to neuroscientist Christof Koch. He said in a paper for Nature: 'It is the tune stuck in your head, the sweetness of chocolate mousse, the throbbing pain of a toothache, the fierce love for your child and the bitter knowledge that eventually all feelings will end.'
[...] An opinion piece by Elisabeth Hildt, from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2019 said that there was general agreement 'current machines and robots are not conscious', despite what science fiction might suggest.
And this doesn't seem to have changed following years, with an article published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence in 2021 by JE Korteling and colleagues, declaring that human-level intelligence was some way off. 'No matter how intelligent and autonomous AI agents become in certain respects, at least for the foreseeable future, they probably will remain unconscious machines or special-purpose devices that support humans in specific, complex tasks,' they wrote... (MORE - details)