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What's the difference, really?
by bowmessage 4y ago
What's the difference, really?
- sumeno 4y agoOne implies he was correct
- greenthrow 4y agoDiscovering would require it to be a fact. It is not. Almost nobody with knowledge in the area agrees with his opinion.
- dekhn 4y agonobody can say with any epistemic certainty, but many of us who had worked in the field of biological ML for some time do not see language models like this as anything but statistical generators. There is no... agency... so far as we can tell (although I also can't give any truly scientific argument for the existence of true agency in humans).
- visarga 4y agoIf you want agency you have to put the AI into an environment and give it the means to perceive and act on the environment. The agent needs to have a goal and reward signals to learn from. Humans come with all these - the environment, the body and the rewards - based on evolution. But AIs can too - https://wenlong.page/language-planner/ https://wenlong.page/language-planner/
- slickdork 4y agoI suppose you could argue sentience is subjective. But then that argument ends up extending to us eating babies -- at least, as Peter Singer taught us, right?
- pvarangot 4y agoA Nobel Prize?