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Waiting for an AI to pass the octopus test
October 6, 2021
In a recent article, the MIT Tech Review describes a thought experiment called the octopus test whose goal really is to describe “how shallow today’s cutting-edge AI language models really are.” It also discusses some of the ethical problems that the creation of conscious machines would generate.