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The level of confidence both sides give here is not warranted. We have no idea about what internal structures emerged within LLMs. We only know outer behavior.
by blagie 3y ago
The level of confidence both sides give here is not warranted. We have no idea about what internal structures emerged within LLMs. We only know outer behavior.
From a humanist / secular perspective, humans evolved to make babies. Emotions are an emergent behavior to maximize the number of babies made, and their survival. Nothing less, and nothing more.
What analogues emerge when we train machines not to survive but to complete text?
We have no idea.
There's the "ghost in the machine" crowd, the sentient machine crowd, and the mechanical machine crowd. None have presented any compelling evidence, but all speak with complete confidence in their hypotheses.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoWhy would anything emerge?
- olddustytrail 3y agoWell, because they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#/media/File:LLM_emergent_benchmarks.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#/media/Fi... If you're asking "Why does anything emerge?", I don't think anyone really knows.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoIt's in reference to your comment about "emotions, motivations, behaviors, or goals". Why would any of these emerge?
- olddustytrail 3y agoI didn't make any such comment and don't see that quote in the parent comments. That's the trouble with you LLMs: the hallucinations ;)