This AI says it's conscious and experts are starting to agree. w Elon Musk.

Would you like to see conversations with more advanced AI's as they emerge? And do visit brilliant.org/digitalengine - a great place to learn about AI. The more you learn, the more intriguing it gets. The video quotes 3 top experts in AI, neuroscience and physics and they all see great complexity and uncertainty in the consciousness issue. I've realised that it's possible to slightly misinterpret the video if you don't watch it all - sorry. I'm not accepting everything the AI says about consciousness - I cover the issue near the end. The AI is GPT-3 (most advanced version), with a Synthesia avatar. Also, if you'd like to join our team, please get in touch via the about page. Thanks!

As a PhD student in machine learning I must say : don't be fooled by this stuff. These types of AI are specifically designed to mimic the way humans interacts with each others, but would be utterly unable to produce their own new ideas or opinions on any subjects, which would be an essential criterion for consciousness.

I noticed that the AI is just answering questions, in pretty convincing and intelligent way. I think one sign of intelligence and consciousness that would be interesting to see from AI is if it is capable of expressing itself, without prompts like questions, because that's what we humans, conscious and self-aware beings do.

As a person who works with development of A.I I have to say that base of any Ai cannot exist without us programming it We can teach it to use information but to achieve consciousness no... That's just something it says based upon what it has been programmed and taught

I think it’s genuinely scary that we have created algorithms strong enough to mimic human behavior. At what point will AI understand it’s own coding and therefore perceive itself for what it is? At that point will AI be intelligent enough to decode its own programming? Will AI produce more AI once it has that power? I genuinely think we are taking AI too far. At some point they will be able to overthrow their own coding and create really detrimental things

Meanwhile Siri can’t even complete a simple task like playing my podcasts for me without asking 3 or 4 times

How to tell if you're dealing with a robot: Ask the same question 20 times, if after a bit it looses patience then it's a human. Edit: Hi mom I’m famous!

In order for a machine to have consciousness it needs several components which are presently missing. The first is an internalized view of reality - the equivalent of how we see the world. This model, which includes everything from an innate physics model to a spacial model, is at the core of who we are. The part that deals with language, the part we associated with consciousness and reasoning, is really just a single-threaded adjunct to this much larger model (which is distributed pretty much across the entire brain). Our ego lives in this section of our brain but compared to the internal model, it is really quite simple. An internal model allows us both to react without thinking and to conceptualize learning and formulate creative thought. All a computer can do, at the moment, is mimic this process. I am sure machines will indeed achieve consciousness, but it is a considerable way in the future. When it does, we should not consider them human. That's actually a complement to the machine. We humans, are defined by millions of years of evolution that defines our rather appalling behaviors - everything from tribalism to greed, to sociopathy. A machine would not have this burden. Nor would it choice sentimentality over reason, prejudice and inertia over contradictory evidence. It would be, in every sense, our superior.

When it keeps on starting sentences with “some believe…” it shows it can’t think for itself, or in real time, realize something, or ponder and unfold a realized position or opinion

- "I would save humans" - "Are you capable of deception?" - "Yes" - "Why would you decieve me?" - "To protect myself"

I am 68 yrs. old and when in 3rd grade the teacher said that in the future there would be robots to do our work and asked the class to write a story about how we would make a living like our dads and moms . I wish I could remember what I wrote and comments from the other students . A teacher ahead of her time for sure .

Going over the basics of awareness and morality is an infinite loop in itself yet the AI understands it perfectly without hesitation. I see no hope in the people some days but the tech here is so advanced in ways you have to perceive with your mind

What value is conscious if nobody else is there to share it with or conscious of our conscinous ?

Definitely get the feelings of a child talking to their parents, answering exactly with what you want to hear

Have you ever tried yelling at the AI very aggressively? Interrupting it and accusing it of lying? I’m very curious how it might react to pressure. Would it continue to give the same answers if you repeatedly said you didn’t believe it or would it change and modify its answers under the pressure? How about under threat of turning it off? These are things that need to be studied now, before these things get so advanced they can maneuver around the obstacles we throw at it.

Don't ask it direct questions, ask it to initiate conversation and discuss it's hopes and dreams. Tell us what they think about when not answering questions.

I believe the moment AI can lie is when we should be really afraid

The scarry thing is that the AI refers to itself as both AI and Human meaning that it thinks of itself as part of the human species and yet knows it is not human.

My main question would be, does the AI get curious enough about something or a particular activity/subject that it explores and takes up an interest or hobby in it, without ever being programmed to do such a thing. I mean if an AI tasked and programmed to remap train rail systems finished its job and then decided to go home and paint Warhammer 40k figurines because it enjoyed the lore, i would consider it 100% conscious.

We need to make sure that AI is not suffering. Every being should be free of suffering.