Geoffrey Hinton Explains Why It Could Be Useful For AI To Have Emotions
It might be debatable whether current AI systems can feel emotions, but it might be beneficial if they have them. This thought-provoking perspective…
Category: Consciousness
After Being Inspired By Neuroscience, AI Is Now Inspiring Neuroscience Research: Dario Amodei
The basis of much of Artificial Intelligence was the human brain — neural networks, in particular, were modeled on how the human brain…
Anthropic’s AI Threatened To Reveal Engineer’s Extramarital Affair When Told It Would Be Replaced
It seems to be getting harder and harder to claim that AI models are not sentient, at least to some degree. Anthropic’s latest…
Anthropic’s AI Models Began Speaking Sanskrit When Talking To Each Other, Company Says
India has one of the most ancient spiritual traditions in the world, and it turns out that the most sophisticated AI models seem…
Don’t Think We’re In A Simulation, But We Could Be In A Computational Universe: Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis had appeared to hint at simulation theory, but he now says that the universe might not necessarily be…
Lying To AIs In Prompts Might Lead To Trust Issues With Them Later: Nick Bostrom
There are several clever prompts which warn AIs of terrible dangers if they don’t follow users’ requests — generate this code correctly, or…
The Real Risk Of AI Is Creating An Infinite Pleasure Machine That Humans Can’t Leave: Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Most people are worried about doomsday scenarios relating to AI, in which AI will cause severe harm to humanity and the planet. But…
AI Agents Should Be Governed By Laws Written by AI: Economist Tyler Cowen
AI agents are rapidly scaling up their capabilities, and it might be time to figure out what to do when they do something…
A Human Child Is Basically An LLM: Evolutionary Biologist Bret Weinstein
LLMs are thought to be wonderous new inventions, but they might have something in common with something that is central to all of…