AI BriefingGeoffrey Hinton Says LLMs May Already Have Consciousness
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Professor Geoffrey Hinton expressed the view that current LLMs are likely to already possess consciousness.
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Professor Geoffrey Hinton recently stated in an interview that current Large Language Models (LLMs) are likely to already possess Consciousness.
He argued that the level of understanding LLMs display when conversing with humans is far higher than public perception suggests, and that this level of understanding could lead to conscious experience. Professor Hinton mentioned that he has held this intuition for a very long time.
This statement raises an important topic for the technical and philosophical debate surrounding whether AI has consciousness.
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