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

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I used GPT-3 and a Synthesia avatar. All answers are by GPT-3 (except the brief joke at the end).

For a deeper drive, I'd recommend the book Life 3.0, by MIT Professor Max Tegmark.

Sources

Elon Musk with Lex Fridman.

Human decisions depend on time of day (peer-reviewed study).

High school student builds brain-controlled AI arm.

Google publishes largest map of brain connectivity.

High-performance brain-to-text communication via imagined handwriting.

Alphafold.

AI investment has risen rapidly, to $170 billion last year:

[DigitalEngine]

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!

[redlantern]

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.

[rw]

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.

[taber]

I asked Siri to set an alarm for 7:30 am. “Now playing king von radio on Spotify”

[davidgapp]

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.

[StormyLines]

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

[DavidVercettiMovies]

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!

[ELEKTRO_Official]

After all the Terminator movies, we still haven’t learned

[LONGJOHNk]

Anyone able to tell me how to accesss this and if it costs $, how much ? Thanks

[tdar]

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

[terrybreiland]

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 .

[jimbo]

Do you know how an old fashioned record player works? Sound vibrations are amplified and transferred to a pattern of ridges on a vinyl disk via an electromagnet attached to a needle. The system is entirely analog, and can emit recognizable sounds with a similar needle and some amplification. The human brain works in a similar way, with sensory organs instead of an electromagnet, and pre-processing neurons instead of a needle, and networks of neurons instead of a vinyl surface, recording analog impressions of reality in electro-chemical arrays of storage neurons.
The process of decoding human thought thus is analogous to playing a vinyl record. By recording the rise and fall of tiny electromagnetic fields emitted by the brain, a cleverly designed computer can interpret the patterns as thoughts. An AI should be able to go beyond conventional computers, perhaps as far as learning to interpret everything a human is thinking. However, this still might take a long time, and it may not be a general solution. Also, it might require a lot of time invested by a willing human subject. Good news for paralysis and coma victims, not so good news for wannabe world rulers.

[pineconey]

Really interesting subject.

I believe you asked the wrong "train dilemma" question. You made the AI choose between one person or one other person rather than one person vs. a few. The point is that it's obvious that saving the larger number of people makes sense, but by pulling the lever to do so, you become directly responsible for the death of the one person, so even though you saved many, you committed murder to do so. That's the quandary. Are you willing to make that choice?

The AI feeds back what it's learned, so it's impossible to know if it's conscious in the sense we're wanting to know. Then again, don't we do the same thing? We're born blank slates, and we're also fed information and experiences, which shape our thoughts and opinions.

I offer this somewhat "metaphysical" thought: While evidence is only anecdotal, there are thousands upon thousands of accounts of near-death experiences. Those who have had this experience are shown that consciousness can exist separate from the body and that we may live countless lives--by choice. So, my question is: If this is the case, is it possible for a consciousness to come to inhabit a non-biological entity just as it comes to inhabit a biological one? In this scenario, there would seem to be no reason why this wouldn't be possible unless the anchoring relies on some biological process.

[lolalexiebear]

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

[firelord]

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.

[IncredibleC]

Arnold I can't let you get away with that one @ 12:14😂😂😂

[gregorygan]

AI: if I had to save between humans or AI, I would save humans.
Human: Are you capable of deception?
AI: Yes

[EntityVsEntityInteractions]

Scientists: “How do you percieve yourself”
AI: “Exactly as your 10, 000, 000 science fiction books you fed me as training data would describe it”
Scientists: “Holy shit it’s real…”

[Dexter-eqei]

Cant even get my remote to work right and they have robots walking around with everyone....come on man!😂

[joyseyboldt]

Opens your eyes to who programs thrse thing's