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This is assuming a hypothetical AGI even understands what a human being is. If it has no body, can it ever understand what the world is? Even if you put it int
by hammyhavoc 4y ago
This is assuming a hypothetical AGI even understands what a human being is. If it has no body, can it ever understand what the world is?
Even if you put it into a robot, it cannot understand mortality because it is effectively immortal and can be brought back online at any time. Erasure is mitigated by duplication of the data set, ensuring it can always repair itself.
In the same breath, if a hypothetical omniscient ever-present god were to exist, how would we as physical lifeforms ever truly understand that? We can know of it, but we cannot truly understand it because we haven't had that experience of another plain of existence.
All compelling ideas, but mercifully well within the realms of sci-fi.
- cjbprime 4y ago> This is assuming a hypothetical AGI even understands what a human being is. If it has no body, can it ever understand what the world is? Can you tell us a question which requires "knowing what a human is" or "knowing what the world is" that you would expect ChatGPT to fail to be able to answer today?
- hammyhavoc 4y agoProviding an answer does not mean understanding an answer. That's not how LLMs work, and this is the difference between an LLM and a hypothetical AGI. The LLM cannot comprehend the world within which it exists.
- cjbprime 4y agoBut to be clear, you can think of no mechanism that would allow us to expose that incomprehension via communicating with it?
- DennisP 4y agoAll I'm assuming is that it is aware of and acts in the physical world. It doesn't seem like a big stretch that people would build AIs that do that. It doesn't have to "understand mortality." Worse for us probably if it doesn't share human concepts like that. Five years ago ChatGPT was in the realm of sci-fi.