OpenAI co-founder suggests AI may be conscious

A leading researcher and OpenAI co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, said that large neural networks may already have consciousness.

it may be that today’s large neural networks are slightly conscious

— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) February 9, 2022

AI researchers sharply criticized Sutskever’s claim. According to Australian scientist Toby Walsh, the topic derails the discussion and perhaps even the evolution of AI.

“Every time such speculative comments go public, months of effort are required to bring the discussion back to more realistic possibilities and threats posed by AI,” wrote the researcher.

Independent sociotechnologist Jürgen Goyter also called this view unrealistic. In his words, such a conclusion has no real basis and is “a publicity stunt to claim magical technical capabilities for a startup”.

The pioneer in deep learning Yann LeCun also harshly criticized Sutskever’s remark. He argues that achieving this would require a particular macro-architecture that none of the existing networks possess.

Nope.
Not even for true for small values of \”slightly conscious\” and large values of \”large neural nets\”.
I think you would need a particular kind of macro-architecture that none of the current networks possess.

— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) February 12, 2022

In March 2021, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, Sam Altman, said that over the next ten years AI will create enough wealth to pay every American $13,500 a year.

In April, the pioneer of machine learning urged stop calling everything AI.

In May, Nobel Prize laureate in economics Daniel Kahneman suggested that AI will surpass humans, but not soon.

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