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Do you have any example of how it cannot reason?
It's a neural network. Neural network are not symbolic AI and are not designed to reason
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I am not. I treat it as I'd treat any smart human being.
LLM's are not a "smart human being." They are predictive statistical models capable of producing results based on training data. LLM's do not think. LLM's are algorithms.
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Basically, yeah.
Notable that the people who saw the first automatons argued whether they were alive.
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People are better understood intuitively. We understand how people fail and why. We can build trust with people with some degree of success. But machine models are new and can fail in unpredictable ways. They also get deployed to billions of users in a way that humans do not, and deployed in applications that humans do not. So its certainly useful to try to explain neural networks in as great of detail as we can.
Or we can build trust using black box methods like we do with humans, e.g., extrapolating from past behavior, administering tests, and the like.
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Brain damage by physical trauma, disease, oxygen deprivation, etc. has dramatic and often permanent effects on the mind. The effect of drugs (including alcohol) on the mind. Of note is anesthesia which can reliably and reversibly stop internal experience in the mind. For a non-physical soul to hold our mind we would expect significant divergence from the above. Out of body experiences and similar are indistinguishabl…
> Brain damage by physical trauma, disease, oxygen deprivation, etc. has dramatic and often permanent effects on the mind. That's not a completely watertight argument. Consider a traditional FM/AM radio. You can modify it, damage it, and get notable changes to its behaviour... > Of note is anesthesia which can reliably and reversibly stop internal experience in the mind ...turn it off and on again... > For a non-phys…
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If you really want to present ants as a civilization, I don't think a single ant is a meaningful unit of that civilization comparable to a single human. A colony, perhaps - but then that's a lot more neurons, just distributed.
A single human will die permanently, alone, miserable, and unproductive. The comparison is apt.
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Or we can build trust using black box methods like we do with humans, e.g., extrapolating from past behavior, administering tests, and the like.
We can, but the nice thing about neural networks is the ability to do all kinds of computational and mathematical manipulations to them to basically pick them apart and really find out what’s going on. This is important not just for safe deployment but also for research on new methods that could be used to make them better. Plus we need this ability to help avoid neural networks with intentionally hidden features tha…
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Did you try fine tuning gpt4 with that book as input?
Fine-tuning requires you to train the model with a set of prompts and desired completions. Building a suitable dataset is not trivial and it's not clear what it would mean to use a book for fine-tuning anyway – masking sentences and paragraphs and training the model to complete them in the book's style?
That would work.
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> Brain damage by physical trauma, disease, oxygen deprivation, etc. has dramatic and often permanent effects on the mind. That's not a completely watertight argument. Consider a traditional FM/AM radio. You can modify it, damage it, and get notable changes to its behaviour... > Of note is anesthesia which can reliably and reversibly stop internal experience in the mind ...turn it off and on again... > For a non-phys…
I mean, if we're really going to go there, who's to say that a large enough LLM doesn't automatically receive a soul simply because that's one of the fundamental laws of the universe as decreed by the Creator?
Although, sure, if we could somehow manage to determine that souls did exist then presumably an AI model as capable as a human would also be eligible for one.