@BenjaminDEKR: Posts like this will not age well. Also, OpenAI employees / influencers spent years hyping LLMs as entities and spiritu…
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A Twitter user criticizes OpenAI employees and influencers for previously hyping LLMs as sentient entities while now dismissing the idea of AI consciousness as crazy.
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Posts like this will not age well.
Also, OpenAI employees / influencers spent years hyping LLMs as entities and spiritual machines and proto-lifeforms.
But now suddenly call you crazy if you think this is perhaps possible.
Adam.GPT (@TheRealAdamG): AI isn’t conscious.
If you think it is conscious or will be conscious, I personally think you need to remove any access you have to model weights asap.
Now step away from the laptop or keyboard, put down your devices and go outside and go touch some grass.
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