It’s not stupid to have uncertainties, but it may be ill-advised to have certainties given our lack of knowledge (e.g. the singularity is happening, or machines can never think).

I do see a lot more dismissive certainty in the pro-AI side of the debate right now.

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frotaur an hour ago | parent [-]

I totally agree! I'm vouching for accepting uncertainty, on both sides of sentience/non-sentience outcome.

I didn't get the same impression about dismissive certainty on the 'side of AI sentience'. My impression is that on that side people mostly raise that it is a serious possibility.

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grey-area an hour ago | parent [-]

I don’t agree it is a serious possibility with the current tech (LLMs) as this story fantasises about. So I’d class that as very close to unreasonable certainty.

	▲	frotaur an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What informs that decision? Seems like it goes against scientific consensus (or lack of consensus) on the matter. (tbc I just skimmed the story, just joined the comment thread as it was interesting, I may be missing something)