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I firmly believe that some subcategory of sentience can already be observed to emerge in ChatGPT and the likes. The difference is that we neuter our models to "
by selfmodruntime 4y ago
I firmly believe that some subcategory of sentience can already be observed to emerge in ChatGPT and the likes. The difference is that we neuter our models to "reset" their image of self for each user, by training a model once and them keeping it in it's now static state, serving a copy of that static model to each request.
If instead we had one continuously learning model, of which we only served an interface to each user, we would see worrisome levels of sentience in a short timeframe.
Actual sentience and a true image of self are not present in human children until a certain age, because they lack long term memory, which is what we currently withhold form our models.
- chronofar 4y agoYou’re throwing a lot of assumptions in there that I would be quite careful about holding “firmly.” I’m not convinced we have any idea whether long term memory is required for sentience, I’d suspect not (are amnesiacs not sentient?), nor that we can reliably infer sentience from behavior (again Chinese Room experiment). It’s possible, but this is too nascent to hold such opinions firmly.
- selfmodruntime 4y agoLong term memory is not a requirement for sentience necessarily, but it makes testing for it easier.
- chronofar 4y agoOnly if you presume systems that display one must display the other, which I think is far from a given in systems that aren't comprised of neurons, or in other words systems that don't look/work like us (which is the only pathway we have to believing the two are linked in any way).