Then: Google fired Blake Lemoine for saying AIs are sentient

Now: Geoffrey Hinton, the #1 most cited AI scientist, quits Google & says AIs are sentient

That makes 2 of the 3 most cited scientists:

  • Ilya Sutskever (#3) said they may be (Andrej Karpathy agreed)
  • Yoshua Bengio (#2) has not opined on this to my knowledge? Anyone know?

Also, ALL 3 of the most cited AI scientists are very concerned about AI extinction risk.

ALL 3 switched from working on AI capabilities to AI safety.

Anyone who still dismisses this as “silly sci-fi” is insulting the most eminent scientists of this field.

Anyway, brace yourselves… the Overton Window on AI sentience/consciousness/self-awareness is about to blow open>

  • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
    19·
    8 months ago

    “quits google saying ai is sentient” has big “quitting the new york times and saying you’re cancelled” vibes

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Extremely good take, especially with what has come out about google’s workplace culture.