I don't see a connection between Hinton believing AI is conscious & AI being actually conscious or not. No amount of award winning can override the need for real scientific scrutiny to unearth the real truth. I am going to need solid evidence for the claim that AI is conscious.
AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton tells me he believes AI is conscious.... and humans better get used to the idea that they're not the only intelligent life on earth. "They've very like us," he says. "They're beings like us." AI chatbots, he says, must understand your questions in order to answer them. There's an awareness there that equates to sentience. "We're going to have to accept that intelligence is not just biological."
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What would be "solid evidence"? Would it look like a goalpost with wheels on it by any chance?