Hinton Says Nothing in Principle Prevents Machines from Having Feelings

Geoffrey Hinton again argued that nothing in principle prevents machines from having feelings and consciousness. Separately, researchers found dissociable directions in LLM internal representations linked to fear, negative valence and pain, though commenters noted this is still not proof of genuine emotion.

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