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Then: Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying AIs are sentient

Now: Geoffrey Hinton, the #1 most cited AI scientist, quits Google & says AIs are sentient

That makes 2 of the 3 most cited scientists:

  • Ilya Sutskever (#3) said they may be (Andrej Karpathy agreed)
  • Yoshua Bengio (#2) has not opined on this to my knowledge? Anyone know?

Also, ALL 3 of the most cited AI scientists are very concerned about AI extinction risk.

ALL 3 switched from working on AI capabilities to AI safety.

Anyone who still dismisses this as “silly sci-fi” is insulting the most eminent scientists of this field.

Anyway, brace yourselves… the Overton Window on AI sentience/consciousness/self-awareness is about to blow open>

    • Ashtefere@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      As someone who learned about Ai in uni and now works in Ai, this shit is straight up bullshit and its infuriating.

      The most obvious thing about this being all bullshit is that the LLM’s don’t have their own idle emergent “thought” - they are purely reactive, so not sentient. Case closed for fucks sake.

      • BigMuffin69@awful.systemsOPEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago
        • Barges in
        • Insists that somewhere between randomly initializing the model weights and finishing training, sentience magically emerges
        • Refuses to elaborate
        • Leaves Google

      • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Honestly, I reckon a field of wheat would be more sentient than a chatbot. It can sense its environment and it doesn’t even need a prompt to do its thing.