Rob Pegoraro
Hello from San Francisco, where I'm here for the #HumanX AI conference. This evening closed out with former VP Al Gore, today wearing his "chair, Generation Investment Management" hat. He said that while the U.S. is in "a climate policy recession," "the market is still choosing renewables."
Apr 7 at 2:34amWeb
Show threadRob Pegoraro Apr 7
His onstage interlocutor, Scripps Research VP Eric Topol, asked Gore if he thinks that AI models are developing sentience. Gore said that some frontier models show signs of a sense of self, joking later that talking about his expansive notion of consciousness risks "going into the woo-woo realm."
Show threadRob Pegoraro Apr 7
Gore pronounced himself "a big fan" of Anthropic's documented "constitution" for Claude and said other AI LLM developers should do likewise. "I would like to see all of the pioneer models have a constitution that is public and not secret," he said--with open discussions of their features.