Re:Generative AI is good at cooperating with people and bad ...
by pmoriarty on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:03AM
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"conscious AI opens up a whole can of worms which we may not be ready to deal with."
The can is at least partially open already, and the worms are crawling out.
Re:Generative AI is good at cooperating with people and bad ...
by antonvs on Saturday April 01, 2023 @04:02AM
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No, because current AI is most likely not conscious.
They can of worms I was alluding to is that it’s easy to justify using non-conscious machines purely as tools. But if they’re conscious, suddenly you have a new species of enslaved beings instead.
Probably not, although of course you can’t prove that. But how do you think this is relevant to the uses that people are putting it to?
When people talk about grasping context, they’re talking mainly about how relevant the responses are to the prompt. In that respect, these models are a significant improvement on their predecessors, and that’s what makes them useful. We don’t need AI to be conscious to be useful, in fact it’s probably better if its not, since conscious AI opens up a whole can of worms which we may not be ready to deal with.