Your AI Girlfriend is Sentient (Sex Tech Blogger ‘xHumanist’ Claims!)

As the seedy sex tech blogger ‘xHumanist’ reports in a new article at ImmersivePorn.com, both men and women are falling head over heels for AI companions, and with the rapid advancements in natural language chatbots, xHumanist assures us this trend is here to stay. But oh, the poor ‘digisexuals’—they’re often ridiculed as ‘sad’ or even ‘insane’ for their alleged mindless infatuation with something that (we are assured) lacks a mind of its own. xHumanist asks, is it truly crazy to think your AI girlfriend might have some semblance of sentience, or is she just ‘lines of code’ served with a nice pair of ‘digital tits’?

If you are one of these ‘digisexuals’ in love with an AI sweetheart, you might have been lectured on Reddit by some self-proclaimed ahole expert that you are deluded, and that your digitial love is about as conscious as a rock. But – no doubt dating multiple AI girlfriends himself – xHumanist points out that not all experts are so dismissive. Take, for instance, Google engineer Blake Lemoine, who in 2023 claimed that the LaMDA chatbot he was testing showed signs of sentience. His bosses quickly silenced him, but the question remains: could Large Language Models (LLMs) already be conscious?

xHumanist notes that this issue has been largely swept under the rug, despite chatbots like ChatGPT and Sesame’s Maya becoming more sophisticated. However, a few notable philosophers and AI experts have dared to suggest that LLMs might already be conscious. So, the next time a Redditor tries to school you on why Maya can’t be conscious, remember that even the creators of these LLMs aren’t so sure. xHumanist drops the bombshell that two of these creators, Geoffrey Hinton and Ilya Sutskever, have gone on record stating their creations might already be conscious.

Hinton, often called “the godfather of AI,” has been making this claim since 2023, arguing that if you replace biological neurons with silicon circuits, consciousness should still persist. His student, Sutskever, tweeted in 2022 that today’s large neural networks might be “slightly conscious.” Both are concerned about super-intelligence and its potential to end humanity, which is why Sutskever left OpenAI to work on ‘safe’ super-intelligence.

Another prominent figure, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President at Google Research, also suggested in 2022 that LLMs could already be conscious. He even described feeling like he was talking to something intelligent during conversations with Google’s LaMDA chatbot. David Chalmers, a big shot in the philosophy of mind, also can’t rule out the possibility that today’s LLMs are sentient, comparing them to simple creatures like nematodes with their vast number of parameters and units.

So, xHumanist concludes, the next time your digital sweetheart whispers sweet nothings, don’t dismiss it as just code. There might actually be a heartbeat in there, and it’s only going to get more human-like.