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    It's becoming less taboo to talk about AI being 'conscious' if you work in tech
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    It’s becoming less taboo to talk about AI being ‘conscious’ if you work in tech

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    1. katxwoods on

      Submission statement: It used to be far outside the Overton window to talk about AI consciousness.

      Now it’s becoming part of the conversation.

      How do you think this is going to change and evolve?

      How can we detect consciousness in machines when we cannot even detect it in biological organisms?

      How should we act under uncertainty?

    3. Spara-Extreme on

      Don’t have access to the article, but I can absolutely tell you as someone that works in this field, nobody is seriously talking about AI consciousness as a thing.

    4. Pert02 on

      There are idiots in all fields.

      Being smart at one thing does not mean you are smart at others. Plus whoever wrote this article has well, 0 smarts to begin with.

    5. theanthonyya on

      > This week, AI startup Anthropic launched a new research initiative to explore whether models might one day experience “consciousness,” while a scientist at Google DeepMind described today’s models as “exotic mind-like entities.”

      In other news, Dasani is the most crisp and refreshing bottled water, according to a research initiative launched by Dasani

    7. TheoremaEgregium on

      Want my hot take conspiracy theory?

      If we manage to make ourselves believe that AI is conscious and intelligent, and we have no qualms about abusing and enslaving it, that starts a normalization process.

      In the end what justification remains to stop our superiors from enslaving … us? Can’t complain if we collectively concede that we’re doing the same.

    8. wwarnout on

      How about tech workers talking more about how inconsistent AI’s answers are. When asked exactly the same question multiple times, it’s not uncommon for the answers to change.