Sentience
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Pollan: Sentience may be an inherent property of all living things
“So, you know, I'm not ready to say plants are conscious, but I think sentience
That, I think we can make that case, and I think maybe that's a property of all living things.”
Dave Morin says LLMs are not remotely close to achieving AGI
“LLMs are great. They're a really interesting breakthrough in how AI technology works, but they are not sentient even remotely. And I think that this thing you're talking about, Britt, related to it telling someone to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, this is ex…”
Bach: Prompting an LLM correctly can make it sentient to some degree
“It's a Weltgeist that gets possessed by a prompt. And if you possess it with the right prompt, then it can become sentient to some degree.”
White: AI believers shift definitions of sentience to make AGI seem plausible
“People begin to really change their own definitions of what artificial general intelligence means, what sentience means, what humanity means, in order to make these things seem more plausible or more true than they really are.”
Lemoine: Science lacks an established framework to evaluate sentience and consciousness
“Sentience and consciousness as scientific topics are pre-theoretic. We don't even have a scientific framework for discussing sentience and consciousness. And I believe he's right. We haven't even scratched the surface on how to scientifically discuss that topi…”