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His argument was that it might not be completely sentient, but could have some properties of sentience that we should be testing for. I'd say the ability to rea
by thequadehunter 4y ago
His argument was that it might not be completely sentient, but could have some properties of sentience that we should be testing for. I'd say the ability to reason well given a unique irl situation is one of them.
I understand that it's just predicting text and the model is only working when it receives input, but what if someone took the LLM and made some kind of cognitive loop in the background where the same LLM reads information, thinks to itself when you are gone, and stores these things in its chat content then tells you about the cool stuff it read about the next day. It may be just text, but now it's "thinking". At what point should we start to consider it as a creature with rights?
- skybrian 4y agoAny text could be used a writing prompt. What makes this prompt special? Maybe it's a text in combination with a writer. But you can also swap out writers, so there's a ship of Theseus issue. This ends up being much like the argument about whether a virus is alive.
- thequadehunter 4y agoWhat would it take for you to consider it alive? Or, to simplify...why is a dog "alive" but a chatbot with a cognition loop is not?