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That reminds me of the argument about sentience lately. Why can't a neural network be sentient if all our actions have been trained by interacting with the worl
by mlcrypto 4y ago
That reminds me of the argument about sentience lately. Why can't a neural network be sentient if all our actions have been trained by interacting with the world since birth?
- netr0ute 4y agoIf our minds are like computer neural networks, then we can only achieve sentience by priming an existing "human person" neural model with data, which is how every human has worked.
- tremon 4y agoThe operative word in your comment being "actions". What "actions" can (current generation) neural networks undertake? Can they initiate anything? Can they choose their own learning material? Can they even choose when or whether to repeat a certain training set? There was a recent HN comment about this that I think illustrates the point well [0]: experimentation is an act on the world to set its state and then measure it. That's what learning involves. These machines do not act on the world, they just capture correlations. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201757
- uj8efdjkfdshf 4y agoBecause most people define sentience as 'a black box that reacts meaningfully to inputs in a sufficiently unpredictable and inexplicable manner', and for most people (especially researchers in these fields), current neural networks do not meet this bar.