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An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

49 points · 79 comments · sbulaev

  1. insin · · focus · HN ↗
    I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications (science.org)
    1. raldi · · focus · HN ↗
      If you lived in the world of Star Trek, could Data convince you he was conscious? How?
      1. Ygg2 · · focus · HN ↗
        If I left him alone in a room would he stare off like a Zombie until prompted?
        1. gus_massa · · focus · HN ↗
          Clippit made random animations from time to time. Was it conscious?

          You can blame MS for adding a prng in the code. But imagine an LLM that check from time to time the price of electricity and GPU available and decide to change the internal mode of launch activities in a TODO list, or use spare capacity to generate a random tunes that you like to hear while prompting.

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