Viele Menschen glauben, dass KI bereits empfindungsfähig ist – und das ist ein großes Problem

> Around one in five people in the US believe that artificial intelligence is already sentient, while around 30 per cent think that artificial general intelligences (AGIs) capable of performing any task a human can are already in existence. Both beliefs are false, suggesting that the general public has a shaky grasp of the current state of AI – but does it matter?

> Jacy Reese Anthis at the Sentience Institute in New York and his colleagues asked a nationally representative sample of 3500 people in the US their perceptions of AI and its sentience. The surveys, carried out in three waves between 2021 and 2023, asked questions like “Do you think any robots/AIs that currently exist are sentient?” and whether it could ever be possible for that technology to reach sentience.

> “We wanted to collect data early to understand how public opinion might shape the future trajectory of AI technologies,” says Anthis.
The findings of the survey were surprising, he says. In 2021, around 18 per cent of respondents said they thought AI or robot systems already in existence were sentient – a number that increased to 20 per cent in 2023, when there were two survey waves. One in 10 people asked in 2023 thought ChatGPT, which launched at the end of 2022, was sentient.

> “I think we perceive mind very readily in computers,” says Anthis. “We see them as social actors.” He also says that some of the belief in AI sentience is down to big tech companies selling their products as imbued with more abilities than the underlying technology may suggest they have. “There’s a lot of hype in this space,” he says. “As companies have started building their brands around things like AGI, they have a real incentive to talk about how powerful their systems are.”

Anyone who tried to use it for academic purposes or mathematics can already tell you this thing sucks