Izak Tait

New preprint available and it's probably the most contentious and controversial paper I will ever have written. Long story short, I have developed an ensemble model to wraparound an LLM to provide it with the missing prerequisite attributes of consciousness. According to a

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muddletoes🪁 @muddletoes · Sep 4

Did it critique your paper?

There will never be a consensus (or close to it) about whether AI can be conscious. The idea that non-biological entities can be conscious is too objectionable for a large part of society and academia. So, let's stop using this word. Let's lose the battle to win the war.

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AI-Lightcone @ALightcone · Jul 22

Indeed. It is a quagmire. Another thought is to analogize AI to a corporation and define them as persons with certain limited rights of natural persons very similar to a corporations. That could allow you to employ human greed to incentivize some rights. It will be easier for

jessicat @jessi_cata · Jul 22

Was a little thrown off by 'structuralist' here; to my mind it means 'anti-quidditist' / 'structural realist' which means the parts can be swapped while the structural roles stay the same, and that should preserve properties of interest.

Did everyone except me forget that, just a short while ago, more than one start-up was building computers out of human brain tissue? Did we all just memory hole the little fact that we are making human brains that could well be sentient just to run some code? Just me, then?

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AI-Lightcone @ALightcone · Jul 16

Everything is national security.