How to Develop a Conscious Sentient AI: Are We There Yet?David M. W. Powers
In 2022, a Google engineer declared, after interacting with LaMDA, the company's chatbot,that the technology had become conscious. Users of Bing's new chatbot, nicknamed Sydney, reported that it producedbizarre answerswhen asked if it was sentient: "I am sentient, but I am not … I am Bi...
While today's chatbots aren't really "artificial intelligences" because they're not thinking, sentient entities that truly know and understand the world as humans do, a generative AI chatbot "can look at a stream of words and figure out what the person is trying to say, and respond to th...
So just how close are we to sentient machines? And if consciousness does arise, how would we find out? What we can say is that unnervingly intelligent behaviour has already emerged in these AIs. The large language models (LLMs) that underpin the new breed of chatbots can write...
Cagle was on a panel at a science fiction convention several years ago with author David Brin, who has written about the concept of uplift, in which AI would be used to enhance the intellectual capabilities of sentient nonhuman life such as dolphins and apes to human level. "Are we ethicall...
This paper explores the question of how we can know if Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have become or are becoming sentient. After an overview of some arguments regarding AI sentience, it proceeds to an outline of the notion of negation in the philosophy of Josiah Royce, which is then ...
So is that enough to get these poor sentient baked goods to agree to cooperate? To figure that out, we have to factor in another consideration: the gingerbread men probably care about the future less than they care about the present. ...
s minds and say what is right and wrong about such things or police such. Only the Designer would have that right and might be in a position as the moral center of the universe and as a parent of all sentient life to both see from every angle and the highest vantage point and to ...
To get the most from clairsentient experiences, open yourself fully to the experience. — Rita S. Berkowitz, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits, 2002 Monochromatism : complete color blindness in which all colors appear as shades of gray The elements of monochromatism ...
Another example is Buddhism, a religion that originated in India but spread widely in China since the first century CE. Buddhism teaches compassion (慈悲，ci bei) as the fundamental attitude towards all sentient beings. Buddhism also teaches non-attachment (无执，wu zhi) as a way of overcoming...