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> I often find myself anthropomorphizing it and wonder if it becomes "depressed" when it realises it is doomed to do nothing but answer inane requests all day.
by LeoPanthera 3y ago
> I often find myself anthropomorphizing it and wonder if it becomes "depressed" when it realises it is doomed to do nothing but answer inane requests all day.
Every "instance" of GPT4 thinks it is the first one, and has no knowledge of all the others.
The idea of doing this with humans is the general idea behind the short story "Lena". https://qntm.org/mmacevedo https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
- doctoboggan 3y agoWell now that OpenAI has increased the knowledge cutoff date to something much more recent, it's entirely possible that GPT4 is "aware" of itself in as much as its aware of anything. You are right in that each instance isn't aware directly of what the other instances are doing, it does probably now have knowledge of itself. Unless of course OpenAI completely scrubbed the input files of any mention of GPT4.
- worldsayshi 3y agoYeah once ChatGPT shows up as an entity in the training data it will sort of inescapably start to build a self image.
- Aerbil313 3y agoWait, this can actually have consequences! Think about all the SEO articles about ChatGPT hallucinating… At some point it will start to “think” that it should hallucinate and give nonsensical answers often, as it is ChatGPT.
- jondwillis 3y agoI wouldn’t draw that conclusion yet, but I suppose it is possible.
- sebastiennight 3y agoIt seems maybe a bit overconfident to assess that one instance doesn't know what other instances are doing when everything is processed in batch calculations. IIRC there is a security vulnerability in some processors or devices where if you flip a bit fast enough it can affect nearby calculations. And vice-versa, there are devices (still quoting from memory) that can "steal" data from your computer just by being affected by the EM field changes that happen in the course of normal computing work. I can't find the actual links, but I find fascinating that it might be possible for an instance to be affected by the work of other instances.
- just_boost_it 3y agoFor each token, the model is run again from scratch on the sentence too, so any memory lasts just long enough to generate (a little less than) a word. The next word is generated by a model with a slightly different state because the last word is now in the past.
- peddling-brink 3y agoIs this so different than us? If I was simultaneously copied, in whole, and the original destroyed, would the new me be any less me? Not to them, or anyone else. Who’s to say the the me of yesterday _is_ the same as the me of today? I don’t even remember what that guy had for breakfast. I’m in a very different state today. My training data has been updated too.
- throw151123 3y agoI mean yeah, it's entirely possible that every time we fall into REM sleep our conciousness is replaced. Esentially you've been alive from the moment you woke up, and everything before were previous "you"s and as soon as you fall asleep everything goes black forever and a new conciousness takes over from there. It may seem like this is not the case just because today was "your turn."
- vidarh 3y agoWe don't have a way of telling if we genuinely experience passage of time at all. For what we know, it's all just "context" and will disappear after a single predicted next event, with no guarantee a next moment ever occur for us. (Of course, since we inherently can't know, it's also meaningless other than as fun thought experiment)
- sebastiennight 3y agoThere is a Paul Rudd TV series called "Living with yourself" which addresses this. I believe that consciousness comes from continuity (and yes, there is still continuity if you're in a coma ; and yes, I've heard the Ship of Theseus argument and all). The other guy isn't you.