{"id":135732,"date":"2022-02-17T01:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/mit-researcher-says-yes-advanced-neural-networks-may-be-achieving-consciousness"},"modified":"2022-02-17T01:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:22:38","slug":"mit-researcher-says-yes-advanced-neural-networks-may-be-achieving-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/mit-researcher-says-yes-advanced-neural-networks-may-be-achieving-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"MIT Researcher Says Yes, Advanced Neural Networks May Be Achieving Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-researcher-says-yes-advanced-neural-networks-may-be-achieving-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid a maelstrom set off by a prominent AI researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/openai-already-sentient\" class=\"\">saying that some AI may already be achieving limited consciousness<\/a>, one MIT AI researcher is saying the concept might not be so far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>Our story starts with Ilya Sutskever, head scientist at the Elon Musk cofounded research group OpenAI. On February 9, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ilyasut\/status\/1491554478243258368\" class=\"\">Sutskever tweeted<\/a> that \u201cit may be that today\u2019s large neural networks are slightly conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, many <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/conscious-ai-backlash\" class=\"\">others in the AI research space decried<\/a> the OpenAI scientist\u2019s claim, suggesting that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TobyWalsh\/status\/1492035584684363780\" class=\"\">harming machine learning\u2019s reputation<\/a> and amounted to little more than a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tante\/status\/1492095659989684225\" class=\"\">sales pitch<\/a>\u201d for OpenAI work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a maelstrom set off by a prominent AI researcher saying that some AI may already be achieving limited consciousness, one MIT AI researcher is saying the concept might not be so far-fetched. Our story starts with Ilya Sutskever, head scientist at the Elon Musk cofounded research group OpenAI. On February 9, Sutskever tweeted that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}