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It’s extraordinary because the ML was trained (iow programmed) to generate text that sounds real. It’s doing what it was programmed to do. It was presumably no
by happyopossum 4y ago
It’s extraordinary because the ML was trained (iow programmed) to generate text that sounds real. It’s doing what it was programmed to do.
It was presumably not programmed to be sentient, so becoming sentient would be a) against its programming, and b) extra-ordinary
- WFHRenaissance 4y ago> It was presumably not programmed to be sentient, so becoming sentient would be a) against its programming, and b) extra-ordinary Terrible argument. If consciousness/sentience is an emergent property of a system, it's quite possible that it could emerge from ML trained on conversation syntax and general knowledge of the world. I still don't think it's sentient, but being "against its programming" is a fiction when it comes to these sort of systems (statistical, unsupervised, et cetera). In many ways you're just a probability distribution over sequences of words too.