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Thinking an LLM is sentient because it can depict emotions is like thinking stable diffusion is sentient because it can produce an image of a sad face. Lemoine
by zeknife 4y ago
Thinking an LLM is sentient because it can depict emotions is like thinking stable diffusion is sentient because it can produce an image of a sad face. Lemoine seems like a very superstitious person.
- hgsgm 4y agoHe is an ordained Christian mystic priest.
- KyleBerezin 4y agoImagine the human brain as a black box, it takes in info and outputs info through a mechanism that we barely understand. If a different type of black box has the same capabilities, how do we go about showing that it is or isn't sentient. That is the crux, and stable diffusion is not comparable.
- paxys 4y agoWhy is stable diffusion not comparable? It is exactly the same kind of black box, just that its output is in pixels rather than lines of text.
- KyleBerezin 4y agoOnly in the sense that a chatbot is attempting to approximate a human (including feelings and memory depending on the bot), whereas stable diffusion is attempting to approximate a camera.
- paxys 4y agoChatGPT is approximating human writing. Stable diffusion is approximating human drawing. It’s just that humans express themselves very differently in the two mediums, and writing is usually more self aware and existential, but the underlying mechanisms of both pieces of technology are exactly the same. If one talking parrot learns from a philosopher and another from a drunk, neither one is smarter than the other. And if people want to award the first one a degree then that should be used as an example of how easily fooled we all are.