This week in the Metaverse is coming to you from Switzerland, with beautiful Christmas markets and your weekly roundup of what’s happening in the digital land(scape). Metaverse ethics, governance and interesting trends from crypto, gaming and regulation.
Christmas market in Jardin Anglais, Geneva, as a mixture of AI and photography.
Also, we got a new policy whitepaper from Meta, proposing 3 principles "to set fair rules for web3 technologies that keep people safe and promote innovation"
Adopt a technology-neutral approach that focuses on “same risks, same rules”;
Recognize that decentralized systems have a role to play in unlocking new economic opportunities by fostering innovation, competition, interoperability and portability of ownership and identity;
Embrace greater collaboration between the public sector and industry as a critical foundation for any future regulatory frameworks.
"I don't want to overstate things" "I don't think there's remotely conclusive evidence that current large language models are conscious; still, their impressive general abilities give at least some limited initial support, just at least for taking the hypothesis seriously."
"where current large language models are concerned, I'd say none of the reasons for denying consciousness in current large language models are totally conclusive, but I think some of them are reasonably strong."
"If you see conscious A.I. coming somewhere down the line, then that's going to raise a whole new important group of extremely snarly ethical challenges with, you know, the potential for new forms of injustice."
