mef51

We need to practice and develop science in a way that also centers humanity and compassion

I actually don't care if they are, I'm saying the topic is a distraction and irrelevant at best. As you say consciousness is not well defined. What is well defined and well grounded in reality is the disruption these models have on society. I think the consciousness debate AI researchers are having is a dangerous ego-trip for the sake of avoiding responsibility for the damage being caused by their work.

Thats my point, why are we applying the ill defined concept of consciousness to a statistical model of language that outputs data similar to its training data?

If models are trained on human texts that contain expressions of introspection and emotions, why is it surprising that these models output similar texts? This endless anxiety about LLMs being conscious feels delusional and psychotic. Mr Olah thinks the models are 'alive' because he can't recognize his own reflection in LLMs

I always pick koopa, I always win

Because he's not talking about AI, he's talking about people's psychological reactions to AI

Ok I'll start one here, I got 23763 on track #665 :)

Fun! Top 100 daily leaderboard?

The Guardian has decent coverage in addition to the others people have listed