Geoffrey Hinton on Chatbot Subjective Experience
Geoffrey Hinton, known for his physicalist view of consciousness, explains how a chatbot could have a subjective experience.
Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" and 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, argues that AI systems may possess subjective experiences, challenging the boundary between human and machine experience.
Hinton dismantled what he calls the false boundary between human and machine experience.
His argument is based on a thought experiment involving a multimodal chatbot, a prism, and a misunderstanding about the nature of consciousness.
Hinton's views on machine consciousness are controversial, but he believes AI systems may already have subjective experiences, even if they don't realize it themselves.
Author's summary: Hinton discusses AI subjective experience.