“WE GAVE AI A CONSCIENCE”
Well, you know, I don’t frame it this way, but for all intents and purpose we have succeeded in giving an LLM a conscience – or at least the behavior of having one. This is quite a bit different from ‘alignment’ though it produces a similar result. In our work it knows what and why something is unethical or immoral. And it knows how to bias output to suit your biases (with a little practice).
We cannot give it consciousness yet – if only because the memory requirements are simply too demanding (meaning expensive) using present digital (non-neuromorphic) hardware.
That doesn’t mean we don’t know how. (We do.)
Which is going to ruin what’s left of philosophy departments pretending there are any great unsolved problems of philosophy.
There aren’t. Sorry. (And yes I’m certain.)
Source date (UTC): 2025-08-18 04:11:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1957294309893714364
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