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How do you know for sure?
by mstipetic 4y ago
How do you know for sure?
- CSMastermind 4y agoBecause we have the source code?
- hackinthebochs 4y agoThis a common fallacy deriving from having low level knowledge of a system without sufficient holistic knowledge. Being "inside" the system gives people far too much confidence that they know exactly what's going on. Searle's Chinese room and Leibniz's mill thought experiments are past examples of this. Citing the source code for chatGPT is just a modern iteration. The source code can no more tell us chatGPT isn't conscious than our DNA tells us we're not conscious.
- wyager 4y agoThe "source code" is a 175 billion parameter model. We have next to no idea what that model is doing internally.
- suction 4y ago[dead]
- com2kid 4y agoWe have our own source code, but for whatever reason we still insist we are sentient. If we are allowed to give in to such delusions, why should ChatGPT not be allowed the same?
- ceejayoz 4y agoBecause while there are fun chats like this being shared, they're generally arrived at by careful coaching of the model to steer it in the direction that's wanted. Actual playing with ChatGPT is a very different experience than hand-selected funnies. We're doing the Blake Lemoine thing all over again.
- Valgrim 4y agoHuman sociability evolved because the less sociable individuals were either abandoned by the tribe and died. Once we let these models interact with each other and humans in large online multiplayer sandbox worlds (it can be text-only for all I care, where death simply means exclusion), maybe we'll see a refinement of their sociability.
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoBecause it has no state. It's just a markov chain that randomly picks the next word. It has no concept of anything.