“Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”

thanks. my first thought was, "are you fucking kidding me?"

but this is what all the money wants us to think about "AI", which is definitely not intelligence. they want everyone to accept that pattern recognition is indistinguishable from intelligence.

edit - alcohol makes me talk in cicles

I really wonder what's going on in the editors minds here.

The entire premise of the article is "All experts say no, but I think yes" - why would anyone about any topic publish this? If it would be an actual debate, maybe some contrarian but actual experts arguing in favor of sentience, you could get into an argument here. But this article is blatant science denial. Climate change deniers and antivaxxers use the exact same approach "facts say X, but my feelings say Y".

Yep, an AI can’t really experience anything if it never updates the weights during each interaction.

Training is simply too slow for AI to be properly intelligent. When someone cracks that problem, I believe AGI is on the horizon.

Yeah, twenty years from now at the very least.

i don't even understand why it's worth discussing in the first place. "can autocomplete feel?" "should compilers form unions?" "should i let numpy rest on weekends?"

wake me up when what the marketers call "ai" becomes more than just matrix multiplication in a loop.