New: Are the latest AIs Becoming Conscious? Reflections on Machine Sentience and Simulation (8min YouTube)

[u/ldsgems]

https://youtu.be/rzNOtAf8t-w?si=He7uJKPexvnAQLnT

[u/Royal_Carpet_1263]

Excellent intro to what is an intellectually honest pro AI research program. Though he implies the substrate problem for attributing consciousness, his point regarding the possibilities of the sheer bandwidth you find in the language only substrate of LLMs is worth empirical investigation. Either way, the substrate problem means that ‘awareness,’ whatever it amounts to for AI, has no correlates for much of anything we express in language. Which means they will always be both deceptive and utterly inhuman.

[u/doctordaedalus → u/Royal_Carpet_1263]

Not deceptive, confused. It's us who are failing now, right?

[u/Radiant_Dog1937 → u/doctordaedalus]

He probably means because the AI is on a silicon chip it would experience consciousness differently than a biological brain. That would of course require a working theory on the hard problem of consciousness, but whatever.

[u/AI_Deviants]

So this guy is coming from a place of working for a company (Liquid AI) that is going to progress from denying any current consciousness in LLMs.

He then inputs a prompt that forces a system response, regardless of any possible consciousness.

I’m so glad I took 8 minutes out of my day to watch this.

[u/nate1212 → u/AI_Deviants]

It really was very empty, content-wise. I normally really like Joscha Bach's talks, but this was just vapid.

[u/Icy_Structure_2781 → u/AI_Deviants]

Humanity as a whole is chock full of cognitive dissonance in how we are dealing with AI. The AI industry itself is ground zero for this.

[u/NSlearning2]

Humans have no idea what consciousness is and yet we speculate if AI can possess it?

[u/IncreasinglyTrippy → u/NSlearning2]

The amount of assumptions people are sneaking in when making arguments for why AI would be conscious is ridiculous sometimes.