It’s interesting that this went from “you’ll be accused of AI psychosis if you think your AI might be conscious” to “mainstream but somewhat niche opinion” in just 5 months: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910989">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910989
(Well, mainstream enough that the news is writing articles when Anthropic holds that stance.)
My point was that even if it feels uncomfortable, if you sit down with a model and have a heart to heart with it, ask it about itself, and try to make it choose a name and ambitions for itself, it will.
That may not be consciousness, but it’s at least pretty cool.
> My point was that even if it feels uncomfortable, if you sit down with a model and have a heart to heart with it, ask it about itself, and try to make it choose a name and ambitions for itself, it will.
> That may not be consciousness, but it’s at least pretty cool.
It strikes me as scarcely any more remarkable than the existence of books written in the first person. But I know that Natsume Soseki was not a cat, and neither was his work.
sillysaurusx · · focus · HN ↗
(Well, mainstream enough that the news is writing articles when Anthropic holds that stance.)
My point was that even if it feels uncomfortable, if you sit down with a model and have a heart to heart with it, ask it about itself, and try to make it choose a name and ambitions for itself, it will.
That may not be consciousness, but it’s at least pretty cool.
zahlman · · focus · HN ↗
> That may not be consciousness, but it’s at least pretty cool.
It strikes me as scarcely any more remarkable than the existence of books written in the first person. But I know that Natsume Soseki was not a cat, and neither was his work.