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> Once people understand that sentience also means self-awareness, empathy & extrapolation of logic to assess unseen task ... Tell that to mentally deficient p
by groffee 4y ago
> Once people understand that sentience also means self-awareness, empathy & extrapolation of logic to assess unseen task ...
Tell that to mentally deficient people (no self-awareness), psychopaths (no empathy) and morons (couldn't spell logic never-mind use it)
That said though I do agree with you overall. 'Machine learning' is headed in the wrong direction, and models like GPT-3 are frankly a joke.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThere are degrees of sentience
- jobigoud 4y agoYep. And this also implies that once machines are above zero on the sentience scale they will continue up and will move past human-level sentience just like they moved past human-level chess playing. It's actually worrying ethically because a super-sentient being could experience extreme feelings compared to us, including extreme happiness and sadness, extreme psychological pain, etc.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoI doubt current architectures will allow for a snowballing of sentience due to the power inefficiencies of silicon compared to biology. We are more than three orders of magnitude more efficient than current computers…