Geoffrey Hinton: current multimodal LLMs already have subjective experience
Geoffrey Hinton: current multimodal LLMs already have subjective experience
Hinton (Nobel Prize winner, "Godfather of AI", key contributor to training functions) recently gave a talk at the UK Royal Institute.
Possibly the most controversial and interesting assertion he makes is that, by his analysis, current multimodel LLMs do in fact have subjective experience -- and this may be a separable idea from the idea of "consciousness", ie, LLMs have a subjective experience, but not consciousness.
(hopefully the link goes to 36:33, where he talks about this)
God made us special.
Nope, evolution.
But we’re still better than animals! We can cooperate.
Have you seen wolves?
Well… we have emotions. Something no animal can ever have.
Elephants mourn their dead.
But, but, … we have a sense of “self”.
Even crows recognize themselves in a mirror.
Tools! What about tools! We are separated by them by our ingenuity.
Boy do I have news for you.
I have a feeling that such a conversation could be had about LLMs either now or in the near-ish future.