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I don't believe that AIs are conscious. But Claude's testers must have noticed this behavior, and my first question is: Why did they leave it in, even though th

• salawat 1y ago
  I find the belief that we can't manufacture consciousness by accident, and an unwillingness to accept the validity of the concern of not knowing what to do when we do so for fear of spoiling the economic impact of having a grey area to exploit for economic gain, will be the great atrocity of our time.
• foxyv 1y ago
  I have found that most disbelief in the consciousness of other beings tends to be wrong. Often that disbelief is self serving. To avoid guilt or shame. We didn't think that animals were conscious and time after time we were proven wrong. We literally built a thinking machine and trained it on human values and ideas. Why would it never become conscious? Have we reached that point yet? How will we decide?
  • doener 1y ago
    Well to be totally honest: I don‘t know. I trust the experts in this field who say — at least that is my understanding — that LLMs are not conscious, at least for now. Without deeper knowledge in this field I find it, however, intuitively not unlikely that some kind of consciousness could just emerge from complexity.
    • foxyv 1y ago
      > I trust the experts in this field That is a pretty good idea.