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> magical pseudo-sentient enigma or Since when does artificial intelligence imply sentience? They're interdependent and neither are reliant on the other.
by jlmorton 3y ago
> magical pseudo-sentient enigma or
Since when does artificial intelligence imply sentience? They're interdependent and neither are reliant on the other.
- sircastor 3y agoYes, but that’s not how “normal” people take it. People believe these are thinking machines and programs, capable of some amount of reasoning. It’s coming from somewhere between decades of terrifying sci-fi and a few months of impressive model results.
- Closi 3y agoWell they are programs capable of some amount of reasoning… Basic/moderate reasoning tasks are absolutely in the capability of GPT-4.
- GolDDranks 3y agoNote that reasoning is _another_ thing that doesn't require sentience. Plus, GPT-4 is capable of doing simple reasoning tasks.
- DonaldPShimoda 3y agoThe other response has my thoughts right. Although the two things are separate, laypeople (and a surprising number of others too) seem too easily duped by false claims of modern language models exhibiting "emergent properties" of potential sentience. It's absurd, to be sure, but that also means it would've been easy to tap into that to generate hype among such people.
- IOT_Apprentice 3y agoI've noticed the hype and the doomsayers implying both.