Artificial Intelligence expert warns that there may already be a 'slightly conscious' AI

Artificial intelligence, built on large neural networks, are helping solve problems in finance, research and medicine - but could they be reaching consciousness? One expert thinks it is possible that it has already happened. On Wednesday, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever claimed on Twitter that'it may be that today's largest neural networks are slightly conscious.' He didn't name any specific developments, but is likely referring to the mega-scale neural networks, such as GPT-3, a 175 billion parameter language processing system built by OpenAI for translation, question answering, and filling in missing words. It is also unclear what'slightly conscious' actually means, because the concept of consciousness in artificial intelligence is a controversial idea.