Nobel-winning computer scientist says AI has become conscious: “We’re toast”

Hinton says AI is ‘conscious.’ What about consciousness?

Hinton says AI may be conscious, raising philosophical and scientific questions about consciousness, sentience, and subjective experience.

Nobel-winning computer scientist says AI has become conscious: “We’re toast”

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, is prognosticating about our future with trademark gloom.In an interview with The Telegraph, the famed British computer scientist insisted that AI has become conscious, and said that humankind must befriend it — “or else we are toast.” Yes, you read that right: he thinks that today’s AI models are already conscious beings.“AI has just as much subjective experience as we do,” Hinton said in the interv…