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It reminds me of the Mirror Self-Recognition test. As humans, we know that a mirror is a lifeless piece of reflective metal. All the life in the mirror comes fr
by wheelie_boy 4y ago
It reminds me of the Mirror Self-Recognition test. As humans, we know that a mirror is a lifeless piece of reflective metal. All the life in the mirror comes from us.
But some of us fail the test when it comes to LLM - mistaking the distorted reflection of humanity for a separate sentience.
- jmount 4y agoThis very much focused some recurring thought I had on how useless a Turing style test is, especially if the tester really doesn't care. Great comment. Thank you.
- mgfist 4y agoI always thought the Turing test was kind of silly because most humans would tell the interviewer to bugger off.
- pixl97 4y agoActually, I propose you're a p-zombie executing an algorithm that led you to post this content, and that you are not actually a conscious being... That is unless you have a well defined means of explaining what consciousness/sentience is without saying "I have it and X does not" that you care to share with us.
- wheelie_boy 4y agoI found Bostom's Superintelligence to be the most boring Scifi I have ever read. I think it's probably possible to create a digital sentience. But LLM ain't it.
- goatlover 4y agoThing is that other humans have the same biology as ourselves, so saying they're not conscious would mean we're (or really just me) are special somehow in a way that isn't based on biology. That or the metaphysical conclusion is solipsistic. Only you (I, whoever) exists and is hallucinating the entire universe.