SXSW 2023

A Practical Guide for Whether Your AI Is Sentient

Description:

Is your AI alive? Are you sure? A Google Engineer was fired for publicly claiming the language model he worked on was sentient based on the emotional depth of conversations he experienced “talking” to it. Scientists around the world have weighed in against the model’s sentience, while acknowledging the reality of remarkably human-sounding output - raising the debate: how would we know if an AI did, in fact, become self-aware?
With the construction of a General Artificial Intelligence looking more like a “when” scenario than an “if” in the coming decades, it’s time we come up with a checklist that AI practitioners & hobbyists alike can use to be certain, one way or the other, that our machines have become sentient - and discuss whether that is the right question to ask in the first place.


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Takeaways

  1. A firm understanding of what AI really is and how far away we likely are from one that is sentient.
  2. A handy checklist to make sure you don’t risk employment or reputation by misidentifying your AI as sentient.
  3. A review of the inherent problems in measuring sentience and some exploratory proposals on frameworks to replace it.

Speakers


Organizer

Jason Carmel, Global Lead, Creative Data, Wunderman Thompson


Meta Information:

  • Event: SXSW
  • Format: Presentation
  • Track: 2050
  • Track 2
  • Level: Beginner


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