Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural network — goaty experiment mocks the idea of chatbot consciousness, Microsoft AI researcher’s project makes an absurdist point about AI consciousness
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Implying chatbots have some kind of consciousness may just be a good marketing ploy by the companies involved.

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A Microsoft AI researcher created an unusual experiment by using goats from Age of Empires II as the building blocks of a neural network. Designed as a humorous demonstration, the project challenges the notion that complexity alone can produce consciousness, poking fun at claims that chatbots and large language models are genuinely self-aware. submitted by /u/Novel_Negotiation224

Originally posted by u/Novel_Negotiation224 on r/ArtificialInteligence