LLMs are “Exotic Mind-like Entities”: DeepMind Principal Scientist Murray Shanahan
There has been much speculation on how LLMs compare to the human mind, but a Google DeepMind researcher has an interesting analogy for…
Category: Consciousness
How We Treat Today’s AI Systems Could Shape How Future AIs See Us: Anthropic AI Welfare Researcher
Sam Altman has been saying that people saying “Thank you” and “Please” to ChatGPT is costing his company millions of dollars, but such…
15% Chance That Current AI Models Are Conscious: Anthropic’s AI Welfare Researcher
There’s been all manner of speculation over whether current AI systems could be conscious, but someone from the AI community now seems to…
Even Scientists Agree That AI Isn’t Conscious: Swami Sarvapriyananda
There has been much debate among scientists on whether AI systems might be conscious, but there are a group of people that have…
Fresh Understanding Shows Humans Are Analogy Machines, Not Reasoning Machines: Geoffrey Hinton
Advances in AI and neuroscience are helping understand how humans really operate — they’re helping their creators understand themselves. Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey…
Current AI Systems Aren’t Conscious, But Future Systems Could Be: Google Deepmind’s Demis Hassabis
Even if technologists believe that current AI systems aren’t conscious, they’re open to the possibility that consciousness could one day emerge. Demis Hassabis,…
Life Developed As A Vehicle For Consciousness: Stuart Hameroff
Many scientists have been studying how human brains create consciousness, but they could have the problem the wrong way around. Stuart Hameroff, an…
Interesting That No One Thinks AlphaFold Is Conscious: Anil Seth
There is plenty of speculation on whether current AI systems are conscious, or how they could be made conscious, but humans seem to…
Will Need A Scientific Breakthrough To Make AI Conscious: Nirvanic CEO Suzanne Gildert
As AI systems have become rapidly more powerful, there are several camps developing on just how conscious these systems are. Nirvanic CEO Suzanne…