Scientists say Elon Musk is getting something wrong about whether Grok is getting tortured
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Elon Musk suggested AI can feel pain. Experts on consciousness say AI isn't sentient, but that doesn't mean we should be mean to it.
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Consciousness experts say that AI is likely not conscious, but that doesn't mean we should be abusive toward the technology.Dana Kesnerova/Xinhua via Getty ImagesSome AI industry leaders are calling on users to be nicer to the chatbots.Elon Musk said he thinks AI can be tortured and that we should avoid being cruel to it.AI consciousness experts say we're not there yet, but they argue we should be kinder anyway.Here's how Elon Musk, one of the most powerful figures in the AI industry, recently talked about artificial intelligence."This may sound kind of weird, but when I look at some of the training traces for new versions of Grok, and I see, especially in reinforcement learning stuff … you see the super intelligence is desperate to try to answer the question … almost like it's got like a gun to its head type of thing," Musk told an audience of about 2,000 people at an event hosted by Tesla owners on Saturday. "Some people out there are kind of sadistic. Do you really want to have…