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Does AI Get Bored?

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Re: Does AI Get Bored?

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Post by n2d4 »

It's an interesting question, and I'm sure there are useful things to learn from it, but the focus on whether AI is "alive" ruins the article. In this sentence:

> Many people believe LLMs are just equations, mechanically churning through statistically derived calculations.

Those people would be factually correct, as that is exactly what an LLM is. Whether that implies that they should have some kind of "rights" is irrelevant to this conversation, I don't know why the article keeps talking about it.

It all feels very much like "well there's this obvious explanation... or maybe we have created AGI and it's trying to communicate!" Not useful.

Re: Does AI Get Bored?

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Post by alex77456 »

codingdave wrote: post #4

> I told it that it had “10 hours” and nothing to do, and to use that time This is silly. AI does not have feelings or thoughts or ambitions or goals. We inject our own in there, and it bounces them off the weights that came from its training and produces output. So giving it instructions to do nothing to for 10 hours and then expecting something other than a wordy version of "nothing" just shows a misunderstanding o…

> AI does not have feelings or thoughts or ambitions or goals

one of those things that if you have to explain it, there’s probably no point in explaining

Re: Does AI Get Bored?

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Post by xtiansimon »

ageitgey wrote: post #3

Anthropomorphizing statistical language models doesn't do anyone good.

To put it in the words of John Connor: “That Terminator is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until you are dead!”

LOL. Years ago I was listening to an interview with a MIT Media Lab alumnus, who answered an audience question about Star Trek. Of course she’s a fan, she explained, but Star Trek is a work of fiction, and her work in the lab, while imaginative, is not fictional.

Similarly, anthropomorphic technology is entertaining, but stop there. At least that’s the notion I subscribe to.

Re: Does AI Get Bored?

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Post by elpocko »

tkellogg wrote: post #14

Whelp, it took an hour for this to quickly rise on the front page and then get shadow banned. I guess that says something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

Since you exclusively post on HN for self-promotion, flagging your submissions on sight is the right thing to do.

Re: Does AI Get Bored?

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Post by elpocko »

xtiansimon wrote: post #13
ageitgey wrote: post #3

Anthropomorphizing statistical language models doesn't do anyone good.

To put it in the words of John Connor: “That Terminator is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until you are dead!” LOL. Years ago I was listening to an interview with a MIT Media Lab alumnus, who answered an audience question about Star Trek. Of course she’s a fan, she explained, but Star Trek is a work of f…

It's the words of Kyle Reese, not John Connor.

Re: Does AI Get Bored?

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Post by tkellogg »

elpocko wrote: post #15
tkellogg wrote: post #14

Whelp, it took an hour for this to quickly rise on the front page and then get shadow banned. I guess that says something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. Since you exclusively post on HN for self-promotion, flagging your submissions on sight is the right thing to do.

how is this self promotion? What am I promoting? This post is literally rooted in curiosity, to the core.

Re: Does AI Get Bored?

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Post by n2d4 »

tkellogg wrote: post #14

Whelp, it took an hour for this to quickly rise on the front page and then get shadow banned. I guess that says something.

Not shadow-banned, it got flagged. Read the comments to understand why some readers flagged it.
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