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thats irrelevant since an LLM is not an intelligent entity. Whatever you're arguing about is fiction.
by dingnuts 3y ago
thats irrelevant since an LLM is not an intelligent entity. Whatever you're arguing about is fiction.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoLLMs are clearly a type of lower level intelligence. Intelligence does not require consciousness.
- Sheeplator 3y agoThe only thing that I would say is "clear" is that LLMs are big collections of statistical data on how we use language. That does not cross my threshold for "intelligence".
- mistermann 3y ago> That does not cross my threshold for "intelligence". You have your own individual threshold for what "is" intelligence? Holy cow, imagine if each other agent had their own also, but spoke as if they had a common one...that sure wouldn't be a very intelligent way to run a simulation, imagine the unrealized confusion and delusion that could result if that became a cultural convention!
- vehemenz 3y agoThat’s quite a lot of metaphysical speculation for a conclusion that is all but clear.
- block_dagger 3y agoChatGPT is not an intelligent entity? What’s been comprehending and rewriting all my crappy code for several months? An auto-complete? There’s obviously emergent behavior there that is actually defined by the maker and most users as “intelligence.” Edit: typo
- SoftTalker 3y agoI would paraphrase one of Clarke's laws and say that "Any sufficiently advanced text generator is indistinguishable from an intelligent entity." Just because a computer program's output is remarkably good does not mean there is any emergent intelligence, any more than a technology we don't understand means there is magic.
- helf 3y ago[dead]
- ben_w 3y agoThe reverse can also be true, with John Keats' agreeing with Charles Lamb that Newton "had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow, by reducing it to the prismatic colours": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(poem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamia_(poem) If we should ever fully understand how our own minds work, will we hold machines in higher esteem, or ourselves in lower?
- edgyquant 3y agoAny biology or physics that suggests humans are just a pattern recognizer will be discarded as us being a conscious being is the only thing every human knows to be 100% true.
- ben_w 3y agoSo, all of biology and physics then. If souls exist, they have no mass, and have a weird way of being repeatably disrupted in consistent ways by damage to certain parts of the brain or specific chemicals. Just because consciousness is a mystery today, doesn't mean we get to stop and say it will be so forever more. Heck, the problem still fundamentally exists regardless of if you're atheist, monotheist, polytheist, or pantheist. -- “We’re not listening to you! You’re not even really alive!” said a priest. Dorfl nodded. “This Is Fundamentally True,” he said. “See? He admits it!” “I Suggest You Take Me And Smash Me And Grind The Bits Into Fragments And Pound The Fragments Into Powder And Mill Them Again To The Finest Dust There Can Be, And I Believe You Will Not Find A Single Atom Of Life–” “True! Let’s do it!” “However, In Order To Test This Fully, One Of You Must Volunteer To Undergo The Same Process.” There was silence. “That’s not fair,” said a priest, after a while. “All anyone has to do is bake up your dust again and you’ll be alive…” - Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett