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

49 points · 79 comments · sbulaev

insin · 1791023739 · 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 · 1791024151 · focus · HN ↗
  If you lived in the world of Star Trek, could Data convince you he was conscious? How?
  1. ACCount39 · 1791024374 · focus · HN ↗
    It's funny how sci-fi has mulled over the exact scenario for decades, and even converged to an answer - but when reality came knocking and it was no longer a far off future world hypothetical, all of it was forgotten overnight.
    The power of wishful thinking is too strong. "Today's AI can't be conscious because I don't want it to be."
    yoz-y · 1791025928 · focus · HN ↗
    The conversation varies between “can’t be” and “isn’t”.
    Most sci-fi AIs are way beyond our current models. I’ve yet to see one that would actually pass a Turing test (that said, I’ve not tried models that were post trained to actually try to behave like a human).
    Consciousness itself is a term that is not really defined anyway, so depending on each’s take the answer will be different.
    Topfi · 1791027834 · focus · HN ↗
    Good old ELIZA doesn’t do that bad on the Turing Test, for all its historic significance, it really shouldn’t be invoked in discussions about LLMs [0] and has been beaten by all manner of models.
    [0] <a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2503.23674v1" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/html/2503.23674v1

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