Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of organizations aiming to build AGI and asserting that their products are close to achieving it (Bubeck, et al., 2023; Cuthbertson, 2022). While a number of researchers have debated whether…For example, OpenAI’s leaders have described their tools as “slightly conscious” [112], and predict that “in the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice” [113]. Venkatasubramanian …
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Without sufficient context from the excerpts provided, Shah appears only as a passing reference in discussions of AI consciousness claims and anthropomorphization, likely cited in relation to critiques of how tech industry leaders (particularly at OpenAI) characterize their systems' capacities. The fragmentary nature of the citations makes it difficult to establish Shah's specific argumentative role in the seminar's engagement with machine consciousness, AI hype, and the gap between marketing rhetoric and technical capability.
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