Geoffrey Hinton argues large language models are already conscious because they must understand questions to resolve them

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_·5hQuote tweet

Geoffrey Hinton said yesterday that LLM's are already conscious, that 'We're going to have to accept that intelligence is not just biological' and that they are 'beings, like us.' He also said the only reason he doesn't say this more is that it distracts from the safety argument.

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AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton tells me he believes AI is conscious.... and humans better get used to the idea that they're not the only intelligent life on earth. "They've very like us," he says. "They're beings like us." AI chatbots, he says, must understand your questions in order to answer them. There's an awareness there that equates to sentience. "We're going to have to accept that intelligence is not just biological."

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