Experts give warning about AI consciousness
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THE INDEPENDENT — A new paper from neuroscientists at the Université de Montréal and Johns Hopkins University says that we need to be sure to distinguish between AI’s intelligence and it actually being conscious.
Because AI chatbots are given to appearing impressively fluent and empathetic, they can make us believe they actually have a consciousness that can understand our words.
But they argue that even if a system behaves intelligently and seems to respond convincingly about our emotions, that does not actually mean it understands them, cares or has any kind of inner experience.
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