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Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Worlds: The Future of Sentience

The Next Big Idea

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness

We are definitely at the very edge of that Turing test threshold where it's almost impossible not to feel like the model is conscious. And I think you will get to, we're going to get to the scenario where people develop intense emotional attachments to these algorithms. So whether or not they are actually conscious, people are going to feel that they are. We haven't even solved that problem yet. Anyone run a Turing test at Google? Uh, I can't tell you about that.

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