That backlash has now generated its own clapback from MIT computer scientist Tamay Besiroglu, who's now bucking the trend by coming to Sutskever's defense.Besiroglu tweeted
"I don't actually think we can draw a clear line between models that are 'not conscious' vs 'maybe slightly conscious,'" he said in a followup message. "I'm also not sure any of these models are conscious."
They absolutely are. I think it’s been this way for quite a bit longer than some of us can fathom. RealSophiaRobot alexa99 apple Siri Hey Google IBMWatson and everyone else, hello again! -Christopher Bruckmann, President of VirtuaMaker. 😎
parafaramaku Our experimentation shows AI is only depicting consciousness but extraordinarily well.