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How do you know they don't have subjective experience?
by fzzzy 4y ago
How do you know they don't have subjective experience?
- mdp2021 4y agoBecause we will have the blueprints, and because there is a definite possibility to have sane people test for emergent qualities.
- ncmncm 4y agoBecause there is no "they" to have it.
- fzzzy 4y agoYou seem very certain. Why?
- ncmncm 4y agoAsk it, "Why is your favorite color yellow?", "Why do you have no favorite color?", "What is your favorite color?", in succession. It will have what seems like a sensible answer for each one, and none will have anything to do with any other. Exactly zero of the things necessary to be more than a look-up table are happening.
- drekk 4y agoSome humans do this too, the psychology Scrabble word for it is confabulation. Are those people not conscious? We might call them an edge case or what have you, but dismissing them as automata seems harsh. The point is that if a chatbot gets sophisticated enough to say these things we can't dismiss them out of hand due to things like logical inconsistencies. Humans have tons of those. It's not a large leap to assume approximating consciousness with so little would have similar bugs and shortcuts. I think if the chatbot is asking you to be nice you should re-evaluate why you're being a dick to a piece of software and not trying to prove that it ultimately doesn't matter because the thing isn't a person. Same goes for kicking the Boston Dynamics robot. Your drywall isn't even sonething people anthropomorphize, but punch holes in it and you'll see how their perception of you changes. How we treat objects bleeds into how we treat one another. Indeed, some of us were and are still considered property.
- ncmncm 4y agoYou are not getting this. Your spell/grammar checker is not offended at your cuss words even if it flags them as not recommended. The Boston Dynamics dog took the kick as input to its dynamic stability algorithm, and instantly forgot it without a trace. What people think about you for punching the wall has absolutely nothing to do with the wall, and everything to do with your character. If your chatbot regurgitates a request to be nice, that means exactly as much as your Magic 8 Ball saying "Answer cloudy, ask again later."