{"id":57694,"date":"2022-02-14T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57694"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:00:09","slug":"openai-co-founder-suggests-ai-may-be-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/openai-co-founder-suggests-ai-may-be-conscious\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI co-founder suggests AI may be conscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading researcher and OpenAI co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, said that large neural networks may already have consciousness.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">it may be that today&#8217;s large neural networks are slightly conscious<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ilyasut\/status\/1491554478243258368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>AI researchers sharply criticized Sutskever&#8217;s claim. According to Australian scientist Toby Walsh, the topic derails the discussion and perhaps even the evolution of AI.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEvery time such speculative comments go public, months of effort are required to bring the discussion back to more realistic possibilities and threats posed by AI,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TobyWalsh\/status\/1492035584684363780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">wrote<\/a> the researcher.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Independent sociotechnologist J\u00fcrgen Goyter also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tante\/status\/1492095659989684225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">called<\/a> this view unrealistic. In his words, such a conclusion has no real basis and is \u201ca publicity stunt to claim magical technical capabilities for a startup\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneer in deep learning Yann LeCun also harshly criticized Sutskever&#8217;s remark. He argues that achieving this would require a particular macro-architecture that none of the existing networks possess.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nope. <br \/>Not even for true for small values of \\&#8221;slightly conscious\\&#8221; and large values of \\&#8221;large neural nets\\&#8221;.<br \/>I think you would need a particular kind of macro-architecture that none of the current networks possess.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yann LeCun (@ylecun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ylecun\/status\/1492604977260412928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, one of OpenAI&#8217;s co-founders, Sam Altman, said that over the next ten years <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opinion-ai-will-create-enough-wealth-to-pay-every-american-13500-a-year\">AI will create enough wealth to pay every American $13,500 a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the pioneer of machine learning urged <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/pioneer-of-machine-learning-stop-calling-everything-ai\">stop calling everything AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Nobel Prize laureate in economics Daniel Kahneman suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opinion-ai-will-surpass-humans-but-not-soon\">AI will surpass humans, but not soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leading researcher and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said that large neural networks may already have consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1190,1138],"class_list":["post-57694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-openai","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"158","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57695,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57694\/revisions\/57695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}