The Pope appears to understand AI better than Geoffrey Hinton does.

New interview with Geoff Hinton:I could write a long essay about why this makes very little sense, similar to the one I recently wrote about Richard Dawkins, when he made a similar error, the crux of which was below. All I would needto change is the words in bold.The fundamental problem here is that [insert name of well-known senior figure here] doesn’t reflect on how [AI] outputs have been generated. Claude’s outputs are the product of a form of mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine internal states.Consciousness is about internal states; the mimicry, no matter how rich, proves very little. Dawkins seems to imagine that since LLMs say things people do, they must be like people, and that simply does not follow.In his...

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