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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Claimed AI May Be Conscious — and Kicked Off a Furious Debate

Can we even define consciousness?

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A month ago, Ilya Sutskever tweeted that large neural networks may be “slightly conscious.” He’s one of the co-founders and Chief Scientist of OpenAI, and also co-authored the landmark paper that sparked the deep learning…