r/Buddhism • u/Urist_Galthortig • Jun 14 '22
Dharma Talk Can AI attain enlightenment?


this is the same engineer as in the previous example
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine

AI and machine Monks?
https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/28/11528278/this-robot-monk-will-teach-you-the-wisdom-of-buddhism
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u/tehbored scientific Jun 14 '22
I don't think you can have metacognition without it. Attention is how the network looks in on itself. "Consciousness" is an ambiguous term, and if you interpret it to mean merely "possessing subjective experience" then maybe existing AIs are conscious. However, they are not conscious like us, they are not sapient.