New Report Claims Google Artificial Intelligence Just Achieved “Sentience”

For good or for bad, artificial intelligence is not only here to stay, but is seemingly getting stronger.

Anthropic, a Google-funded artificial intelligence company believes they have evidence of their AI powered language model (LLM) Claude 3 Opus showing signs of sentience.

AI Firm Suggests ‘Claud 3’ Has Achieved Sentience.

The U.S.-based, Google-funded artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic is suggesting that its AI-powered large language model (LLM) Claude 3 Opus has shown evidence of sentience. If conclusively proven, Claude 3 Opus would… pic.twitter.com/y03aLjxGhH

— AɯƙɯαɾԃMαɱα™® (@Aspiemama_107) April 30, 2024

This would be a drastic step in artificial intelligence as it would be the first sentient AI in human history.

The National Pulse adds more on the claim of sentience from Anthropic’s prompt engineer, Alex Albert:

“When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior—it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it,” Albert posted on X (formerly Twitter). He continued: “Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.”

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of… pic.twitter.com/m7wWhhu6Fg

— Alex Albert (@alexalbert__) March 4, 2024

Claude 3 Opus is clearly sentient and that’s strange given that there exists a living being on planet Earth with a 3000 IQ and no laws apply to them.https://t.co/qS8Lhlaf63

— Ross Otterman (@zogulelp) April 29, 2024

Despite the claim of sentience, there is serious doubt from AI industry experts in doubt, many believing sentience in artificial intelligence to be impossible.

Whether or not the Claude 3 Opus is sentient, the question of whether or not artificial intelligence is a positive or negative influence in today’s society – many believe AI will only be a detriment:

Artificial Intelligence and the Grim Future of a Divided Humanity

Humanity is being slow-killed with technologies that only serve to isolate and track us pic.twitter.com/C7jkbeqKSX

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) April 23, 2024

Did you miss the Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan discussion on artificial intelligence?

Here’s the summary:

Carlson: "[AI]…If it's bad for people we should strangle it in its crib. Why not just blow up the data centers?" pic.twitter.com/CoJDdjxzv4

— Francisco In San Francisco (@FranciscoInSFO) April 21, 2024

The bad and the ugly: AI is harmful, unreliable, and running out of data https://t.co/w4fpxiRl5D #AI #ML #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #GenAI pic.twitter.com/ecD9PkpVRX

— 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) April 22, 2024

IF THE LEFT IS PUSHING FOR "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" WE KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO BE BAD. SIMPLE AS THAT. CAUTION MUST BE EXERCISED TO MAKE IT AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE.

— D.B.Cowin (@DBCowin) April 30, 2024

Time will have to tell on whether the Claude 3 Opus is truly sentient, or if it is simply mimicking.