New paper suggests AI might be conscious during training
skdh · x · 2026-09-23
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder shares a new paper arguing that AI models may have some form of consciousness during the training process itself, challenging the common assumption that consciousness would only arise at inference/deployment time. Details require reading the linked paper.
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