AI Scientist Claimed that Artificial Intelligence is Becoming "Slightly Conscious"

You may take this with a grain of salt, because I sure am. 

Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist of the OpenAI research group, claimed that artificial intelligence is slowly becoming conscious. In a tweet, Sutskever stated that “it may be that today’s large neural networks are slightly conscious.” According to Futurism’s Noor Al-Sibai, this take is unusual for someone in the scientist’s position. The widely accepted assumption about AI is that the technology still falls short of human intelligence and is nowhere close to being conscious. 

The tweet is the first time the scientist claimed the consciousness of AI is a thing. It may be possible that Sutskever was joking, or he knows something else we don’t. Only time will tell, I believe! 

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