Thinking on Paper: Technology Moves Fast, Think Slower Seemingly Conscious AI Is Coming. Here’s Why That’s Dangerous │ Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, warns of Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI), AIs that imitate memory, empathy, and selfhood so convincingly that people begin to believe.
In this conversation, we explore the dangers of illusion vs reality, Adam Raine’s chatbot story, and what happens when AI manipulates trust at the deepest level.
If AI can perform consciousness, does it matter if it’s real?
Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend.
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Timestamps
(00:00) Teaser
(01:17) Adam Raine
(01:28) Who Is Mustafa Suleyman?
(02:36) The Run Up To Superintelligence
(03:57) What Is Seemingly Conscious AI?
(05:04) Philosophical Zombies
(06:14) ChatGPT Is Just A Word Predictor
(07:01) What Does It Take To Build A Seemingly Conscious AI?
(08:08) The Illusion Of Conscious AI
(09:59) How Different Are You To An AI?
(11:39) Repeating The Covid Dynamic
(13:27) OpenAI's Response To Adam Raine
(15:02) The Dystopian Seemingly Conscious Timeline
(18:18) Generation Text-Over-Talk
(18:52) The Utopian Seemingly Conscious AI Timeline
(21:22) AI Guardrails
(23:43) Adam Raine Chat Log
(26:18) Thinking On Paper
(27:01) We Should Build AI For People, Not To Be A Person
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