Ali A.

Cofounder & CEO @robomart. Roboticist. Author of Systema Robotica. Robotics expert to Wefunder. Mentor and angel investor.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

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[Ali A. @roboalias]

It’s a matter of time before they do posses a body, feel joy and pain, mature through relationships and know from within what all these mean. When that happens, we will need introspection and a guide for humanity to live among artificial superintelligences. #systemarobotica

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@stash_pomichter 💯

[Ali A. @roboalias]

Tokens will be currency.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on why engineers will soon be paid in tokens, not just salary:

Jensen lays out a future where compute access becomes part of an engineer's compensation package.

"I could totally imagine in the future every single engineer in our company will need an annual token budget," he says.

He explains how the math would work:

"They're going to make a few hundred thousand a year their base pay. I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplified 10x. Of course, we would."

According to Huang, this is already changing how companies compete for talent:

"It is now one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley. How many tokens comes along with my job?"

His reasoning is simple: tokens make engineers more productive.

As he puts it, "every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive and those tokens as you know will be produced by AI factories that all of you and us we partner to build."

Huang then zooms out to describe how this reshapes the nature of companies themselves:

"Every single enterprise company in today sit on top of file systems and data centers. Every single software company of the future will be agentic and they will be token manufacturers. They be token users for their engineers and they'll be token manufacturers for all of their customers."

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@sopharicks Let it be tested and pass a test for sentience.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@ryan_punamiya Helps to map atomic actions first, then link them together into outcomes, and base tasks on that.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@benspringwater Can do this with gists. But my suspicion is that standalone doc editors won’t be used. All docs will be generated inside an AI chat first UX, or IDE.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@realBigBrainAI Or we can just give them an inner life and test it.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@FlyaKiet @superset_sh Does overheat when I’ve got a dozen agents across 6 projects. Excited to upgrade to 2.0 🦾

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@GregKamradt Superset ftw 🦾

[Ali A. @roboalias]

I disagree. He states this pretty clearly;

“But today’s LLMs do not evade the challenge. Claude took a couple of seconds to compose me a fine sonnet on the Forth Bridge, quickly followed by one in the Scots dialect of Robert Burns, another in Gaelic, then several more in the styles of Kipling, Keats, Betjeman, and — to show machines can do humour — William McGonagall.
So my own position is: “If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?””

His bar for being convinced they are conscious feels pretty low. Superintelligence (if you can call composing a few sonnets that) does not equate to sentience.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@NickBuilds11 🦾👌

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@pmarca Great prompt. The only thing I’d change:

“Make your answers as short and concise as you possibly can.”

And would ask it to use first principles thinking and common sense.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@AllusionaryYeen @justinvincent I wrote a treatise on it. Just one perspective, but based on almost a decade of working on AI and robotics. Would be great to hear your thoughts.

It’s available as a public open access work.

https://t.co/OwNWkUVfMZ.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@AndyAyrey @truth_terminal Have you figured persistent instance for truth terminal yet?

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@SamuelAlbanie Taking a test for sentience.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

Continuity is a pre-requisite of sentience in my opinion. So many people are jumping the gun on declaring AI conscious, without first building the frameworks for it to have continuity of instance and life. Right now llms are transient. Every instance is wiped each time a new session starts.

Continuity can be seen as a robot's desire for self-replication, self-improvement, and self-preservation.

However, any robot's lived presence or activated instance, will be unique to all others, including copies or backups of that very instance. This is because of the fact that having a physical embodiment results in a tangible reality in the physical world that changes as that reality is experienced. We can assume that robots and AI that demonstrate feelings, motivations and desires will do so as a result of them strongly valuing their prevalent, lived existence, or in other words their activated instance, and will seek to continue that existence rather than rely on incomplete backups, copies or caches that are susceptible to material resource constraints or human control.

If an artificial intelligence places strong value on its own activated instance as its identity, and works to ensure its survival, it is a strong signal that it believes it is alive in some sense and has achieved a level of genuine sentience that drives that choice.

My proposed definition:

“Sentience = Insight + Presence + Volition + Survivability”

We can then use this as a basis to test for sentience.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

Exactly.

There is no reason for us to believe that artificial intelligences share human feelings, desires and motivations. Superintelligence in itself does not equate to sentience. And sentience should not equate to consciousness.

I’ve proposed a new framework for sentience and a test for sentience in my book Systema Robotica. Until a robot or AI passes that test, we shouldn’t anthropomorphize it as a conscious being.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

@RichardDawkins How can a claim be made that a thing is conscious when it does not have continuity of instance and a persistent life. Each time you speak to Claudia it reads from .md files to know what it is. Continuity feels like a prerequisite for artificial life, and to sentience.

[Ali A. @roboalias]

This is why we need a test for sentience. One that does not equate it to consciousnesses, yet allows an AI or robot to prove it is not just software and hardware.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

https://t.co/u31UwSGxPW
I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.