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@shrikant@noc.social

2025-10-05 12:58 UTC

(Just want to confirm something here...) What are your thoughts on the topic of AI and sentience? Is AI sentient? Can it be sentient? If it is sentient, how does that impact humanity in general? If it is not sentient, is there a possibility it might gain sentience? Just... humour me.

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  • @shrikant@noc.social no, and not for another decade at least. And if I’m wrong, it’ll have the sentience of a toddler at best for the next few years. It’ll grow from there then… it’ll need enormous energy resources to grow, not something a majority of the world has right now.

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  • @mikael@hachyderm.io 2025-10-05 20:11

    @shrikant@noc.social Speaking as a non-expert and hypothesizing wildly: We don’t have AI yet. We have marketing ”geniuses” who love to make false and misleading claims to boost their companies and their fortunes. Are LLMs sentient? I can’t see how they could be, and I can’t see any way to get from an LLM to sentience. I personally think we need something that works more like a nervous system to achieve AI. Importantly, it needs to interact with the real world and experience consequences from interacting with it to achieve intelligence. After that, it’s probably mostly a matter of scale - which in itself is not a small problem to solve.

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