"This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we explore whether artificial intelligence (AI) technology has progressed to the point where it has already achieved consciousness. In a nutshell, our panel of technologists do not believe AI is very close to achieving consciousness, but that it is indeed possible for AI to reach the point of consciousness, and to even reach the point of self-reflection, which would pose an existential threat to humanity."
"Our conversation this week is from a panel presentation titled "Artificial Intelligence Today: A Discussion of the Technical Landscape of AI." I moderated this conversation, which was between Jason Alan Snyder, who is Chief AI Officer for Momentum Worldwide, Malek Ben Salem, an AI expert, technologist and consultant, Dustin Raney, who is Head of Industry Strategy for Acxiom, and Dina Blikshteyn, who is partner and co-chair of the AI Practice Group at Haynes Boone."
"Two years ago, he predicted AI would become sentient within 15 years. Last year he predicted AI would become sentient within 14 years. Predictably perhaps, he agreed with his previous predictions and this year said, "13 years is probably a good guess," but that AI is currently nowhere near achieving a sentient state today."
AI has not achieved consciousness and remains far from sentient today. Technologists consider consciousness and self-reflection attainable possibilities for AI in the future. Self-reflective AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. Estimates for when AI might become sentient have shifted from 15 to 14 and recently to 13 years, illustrating uncertainty but ongoing expectation of eventual sentience. Contemporary systems, tools, and architectures are not seen as sufficient to produce Artificial General Intelligence. Continued advances in architectures, learning methods, and system integration will determine whether AI attains self-awareness or reflective cognition.
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