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Eric Holloway
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February 20, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Artificial intelligence (implications of consciousness), Daniel Dennett (on conscious AI), Featured, GPT-2, Ilya Sutskever, Linguistic neural networks, Mathematics (consciousness), Uncanny Valley effect}

“Slightly” Conscious Computers Could Doom Atheism

_{That might sound surprising but let’s follow the logic of the “consciousness” claim through to its inevitable conclusion} _{Eric Holloway
February 20, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Recently, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, proposed that artificial intelligence (AI) may currently be “slightly” conscious. His claim was probably in reference to the GPT-3 AI that can generate text from a prompt. I’ve played with a couple of the linguistic neural networks a bit, and you can try them out here. Some of the output is quirky, which could be mistaken for personality and make the algorithm appear conscious. The algorithm also generates emotional statements, that can generate empathy in a human user of the system. Just as kids make believe their dolls are alive when they develop an emotional bond with their toy, the algorithm text generates empathy in the human user. It can make us feel a Read More ›