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> it feels pain No... It detects temperature and reacts. It does not feel pain. Feels implies both affect and sensation, both of which are experiential, phenom
by dbspin 3y ago
> it feels pain
No... It detects temperature and reacts. It does not feel pain. Feels implies both affect and sensation, both of which are experiential, phenomenological qualia requiring some corollary of a nervous system and sentience, neither of which exist within the underlying structure of an LLM or indeed any current AI. AI can no more feel pain than a sliding door can decide to open. It's deterministically reacting to stimuli.
- TZubiri 3y agoDawkins faces this argument in "The selfish gene" and he choses to explicitly acknowledge that qualia is unprovable, so takes a definition of the phenomenon that is independent of it. And this is when studying actual living organisms, so applying it to machines will be even more useful.