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That sounded to me like he was anthropomorphizing those artificial systems, something scientists constantly tell laypeople and journalists not to do. \u201cScientists do go out of their way not to do that, because anthropomorphizing most things is silly,\u201d Hinton concedes. \u201cBut they’ll have learned those things from us, they’ll learn to behave just like us linguistically. So I think anthropomorphizing them is perfectly reasonable.\u201d When your powerful AI agent is trained on the sum total of human digital knowledge\u2014including lots of online conversations\u2014it might be more silly not<\/em> to expect it to act human.<\/p>\n

But what about the objection that a chatbot could never really understand what humans do, because those linguistic robots are just impulses on computer chips without direct experience of the world? All they are doing, after all, is predicting the next word needed to string out a response that will statistically satisfy a prompt. Hinton points out that even we<\/em> don\u2019t really encounter the world directly.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people think, hey, there’s this ultimate barrier, which is we have subjective experience and [robots] don’t, so we truly understand things and they don\u2019t,\u201d says Hinton. \u201cThat’s just bullshit. Because in order to predict the next word, you have to understand what the question was. You can’t predict the next word without understanding, right? Of course they’re trained to predict the next word, but as a result of predicting the next word they understand the world, because that’s the only way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

So those things can be \u2026 sentient? I don\u2019t want to believe that Hinton is going all Blake Lemoine on me. And he\u2019s not, I think. \u201cLet me continue in my new career as a philosopher,\u201d Hinton says, jokingly, as we skip deeper into the weeds. \u201cLet\u2019s leave sentience and consciousness out of it. I<\/em> don’t really perceive the world directly. What I think is in the world isn’t what’s really there. What happens is it comes into my mind, and I really see what’s in my mind<\/em> directly. That’s what Descartes thought. And then there’s the issue of how is this stuff in my mind connected to the real world? And how do I actually know the real world?\u201d Hinton goes on to argue that since our own experience is subjective, we can\u2019t rule out that machines might have equally valid experiences of their own. \u201cUnder that view, it\u2019s quite reasonable to say that these things may already have subjective experience,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Now consider the combined possibilities that machines can truly understand the world, can learn deceit and other bad habits from humans, and that giant AI systems can process zillions of times more information that brains can possibly deal with. Maybe you, like Hinton, now have a more fraughtful view of future AI outcomes.<\/p>\n

But we\u2019re not necessarily on an inevitable journey toward disaster. Hinton suggests a technological approach that might mitigate an AI power play against humans: analog computing, just as you find in biology and as some engineers think future computers should operate. It was the last project Hinton worked on at Google. \u201cIt works for people,\u201d he says. Taking an analog approach to AI would be less dangerous because each instance of analog hardware has some uniqueness, Hinton reasons. As with our own wet little minds, analog systems can\u2019t so easily merge in a Skynet kind of hive intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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