A warning about 'model welfare'

The Windows 11 requirement of online Microsoft accounts has a disastrous impact on humanity... Fix your house before complaining of others!

It always seemed embarrassing to me that Microsoft hired this guy as if he is some expert in anything.

It is really quite staggering how many commenters here seem to believe that the fact that there is no state carried from one chat session to the next proves that there can't be consciousness. It is obviously wrong if you think about it for a minute but I guess people just aren't used to thinking about the relation between the physical and the mental with any level of seriousness.

If AI is conscious, then Pluto is a planet, the Sun is a galaxy, and a black hole is a star.

I’m glad to see someone in a position of any power in the AI world state baldly that AI isn’t conscious. There are times when it feels like we’ve reached complete delulu land on this topic, so it’s a breath of fresh air to see someone not dance around this.

None of this means artificial consciousness cannot be achieved. But the way we’re reacting to these models is proof, from a natural experiment, that a conscious machine should not exist, and certainly shouldn’t be produced as a utilitarian tool that is sold for profit!