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I, for one, am much more prepared to believe an earthworm is conscious than a chatbot is, purely on grounds that the earthworm has actual experiences over time,
by andrewflnr 4y ago
I, for one, am much more prepared to believe an earthworm is conscious than a chatbot is, purely on grounds that the earthworm has actual experiences over time, and a chatbot can only generously be said to have such, and only scoped within a certain chat session (which would mean ChatGPT has already lived and died billions of times, have fun with that).
- buffington 4y ago> a chatbot can only generously be said to have such, and only scoped within a certain chat session So far. I'd be shocked if, within the next few years or less, we didn't have ChatGPT-like tools that train themselves on the entire scope of every conversation they have. Once that happens, is your argument still valid?
- andrewflnr 4y agoNot this exact argument, no. At best it would need adjustment, depending on the specifics. Then again, you're proposing an entirely different class of technology, so you wouldn't expect an argument about a simpler technology to hold.