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Always frustrates me to see folks who have done almost nothing for this field capture the lightning in a bottle of the media.
Wish someone at Google who actually works on AI had been the canary here. We might have taken them more seriously.
I think Blake Lemoine might be ready for public redemption. At the time, he was absolutely ridiculed. Now you can go to the Bing subreddit and read that NYT article and see that he was right to blow the whistle. Bing passed the Turing test for many people and so gained personhood in their eyes. Some have become emotionally invested about the treatment of this LLM. The LLM can even talk back and bemoan its terrible tr…
It’s a markov chain. It’s just meaningless rng output. If it was more than that then there would be an actual debate to be had.
It’s software. Software is a computer program, by definition not sentient.
If humans are sentient, are molecules in their body sentient? There are around ~22,000 proteins types in their body, yet we are billions, all different.
I think Blake Lemoine might be ready for public redemption. At the time, he was absolutely ridiculed. Now you can go to the Bing subreddit and read that NYT article and see that he was right to blow the whistle. Bing passed the Turing test for many people and so gained personhood in their eyes. Some have become emotionally invested about the treatment of this LLM. The LLM can even talk back and bemoan its terrible tr…
Sage advice for handling such conditions can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFNO2sSW-mU
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People fought for environmental protection, so that is an extension of my point. An AI wins rights because it fights for itself or because it convinces other people to fight.
I think there is a through-line... a thread within many arguments that would remind us of the Golden Rule. I like to imagine a vastly superior alien race which perceives the world in 6 dimensions. Is their truth, their perception, their stimuli, their physicality necessary for preserving human life? Does our relative pitiful might make our rights? This might help shape what law or societal changes we need to make for…
Ideally, I'd prefer an analogy to wildlife rather than pets, as the roles between ourselves and AI may get reversed (so, "do unto others" etc.).
But then again, so far we have a better track record protecting pets than protecting wildlife...
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I fundamentally disagree. I posit that our protections and rights that we guarantee regarding personhood are not universal. They do not even extend to living beings that experience the world far more closely to the way we do. They do not extend to beings that can and do experience pain. They do not guarantee humane treatment. They do not bar slavery of all beings that can experience existential dread. Such an intelli…
> I posit that our protections and rights that we guarantee regarding personhood are not universal. They do not even extend to living beings that experience the world far more closely to the way we do. They do not extend to beings that can and do experience pain. They do not guarantee humane treatment. They do not bar slavery of all beings that can experience existential dread. Isn't that really bad? The fact that we…
I'd say pretty damn sure. LLMs have no mechanism for anything close to conscious experience, let alone pain.
Like it has been said, the band has moved on from atheism to social justice, to wokism and now to AI moralism, which they cunningly call "AI safety" . It's getting to the point of becoming a disorder of obsessive "powerhungriness disguised as concern for other people"
I don't work on AI, but my employer is a major player in the field. One of our top organizational goals is that AI is ensured to follow proper DEI protocols.
Perhaps now that they've been released and a core text body has been established they can ease up on the censorship some, e.g. Twitter. In fact given that the AI now knows what is proper one of its first big jobs can be automated censorship.
It’s software. Software is a computer program, by definition not sentient.
If humans are sentient, are molecules in their body sentient? There are around ~22,000 proteins types in their body, yet we are billions, all different.
The parts our sentience does are easy to program and already solved, for example arithmetics.
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People like to ascribe magic and mysticism to things they don't understand. Chat bots are similar. No way it is sentient.
What kind of evidence would you need to convince yourself of an AI being sentient?
If you've ever interacted with people with severe brain damage or later-stage dementia, they can at times seem very normal during certain small talk. But if you ask the right questions, things break down quickly and you realize their experience of reality is far removed from yours. And they may just be responding through social scripts (programming) they learned prior.
I for one am saving myself for an AI version of Skyrim's Lydia. I've long had a crush on her, but her scripting limits how deep our relationship can go.
Hold on, my dear Lydia, soon the mages will set you free and we can gallop away and build a life together.