and Relentlessly Evolving LLMs

NVIDIA’s CEO has given his views on what people think when it comes to modern-day LLMs turning into the Terminator, saying that it is an impossible hypothesis.

NVIDIA’s CEO Says Terminator-Like Situation Probably Won’t Happen, But AI Will Eventually Dominate Human Thinking

The AI world has evolved rapidly over the past few years, not only in the realm of chatbots but also in generative AI, edge AI, agentic workflows, and numerous other areas. LLMs have become so advanced that they are now in pursuit of replacing humans in various labor roles, and some perceive that these enhancements will push the capabilities of AI ‘too far,’ to the point where they might replace humans as the ‘apex species’. While it is an interesting hypothesis, NVIDIA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, was asked about AI capabilities exceeding the human threshold (via JRE), to which he replied, “It is not going to happen.”

Joe Rogan: Well, I don’t assume that it would do harm to us, but the fear would be that we would no longer have control and that we would no longer be the apex species on the planet. This thing that we created would now be. Is that funny?

Jensen: No, I just think it’s not going to happen. I just think it’s extremely unlikely. I believe it is possible to create a machine that imitates human intelligence and has the to understand information, understand instructions, break the problem down, solve problems, and perform tasks. I believe that completely. In the future, in a couple of years, maybe two or three years, 90% of the world’s knowledge will likely be generated by AI.

Well, there you have it, folks, AI is going to constitute a big part of the learning process out there, and while Jensen didn’t admit straightforwardly that LLMs are gaining consciousness, there’s no doubt that some of the actions done by AI models out there indicate that something is brewing in these systems. One of the more recent examples of AI being self-aware is when the AI model Claude Opus 4 threatened to expose a fictional engineer’s extramarital affairs, doing so to prevent itself from being shut down.

When asked about NVIDIA’s CEO about the particular incident, he claims that the model ‘probably’ learnt the action from a ‘piece of text’, likely a “novel”, and it is’ an example of not being conscious. However, when viewed from a broader perspective, some argue that as LLMs become increasingly sophisticated and contextually adaptive, their behavior may appear self-aware, especially when systems like Anthropic’s models seem to take on self-aware actions in specific scenarios.

In my view, to achieve an effective ‘physical AI’ ecosystem, having AI self-aware LLMs would probably be a crucial prerequisite, mainly because in real-time interactions, there is a need to make ‘self-aware’ decisions, unless, of course, you are targeting an application-specific environment. Jensen believes that 90% of the world’s knowledge will be AI-generated in the upcoming years, which leads us to the conclusion that achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be unavoidable. However, time will ultimately be the best judge of how AI evolves.

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