[Ads-l] Preliminary Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2022

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a candidate for notable quotation of the year although it
might be a bit too abstruse or idiosyncratic for a mass audience at
this time.

Ilya Sutskever is a top machine learning expert. He is the co-founder
and Chief Scientist of OpenAI which is one of the leading AI research
companies. In February 2022 he tweeted the following:

[Begin excerpt]
it may be that today’s large neural networks are slightly conscious
[End excerpt]

Machine learning researcher and Turing award winner Yann LeCun replied
with a tweet of disagreement. LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta:

[Begin excerpt]
Nope.
Not even for true for small values of “slightly conscious” and large
values of “large neural nets”.
I think you would need a particular kind of macro-architecture that
none of the current networks possess.
[End excerpt]

Google engineer Blake Lemoine interacted with the Google chatbot LaMDA
and concluded:

[Begin excerpt]
LaMDA is sentient.
[End excerpt]

Here is a link to the Quote Investigator article on these quotations.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/10/05/ai-conscious/

Garson

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 10:23 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Although it's only September, I am sending out a preliminary
> appeal for suggestions of candidates for my annual list of the
>10 most notable quotations of the year, disseminated by the
> Associated Press.

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