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Why does a human being behind any words change anything at all? Trust should be based on established facts/research and not species.
by fennecfoxy 2y ago
Why does a human being behind any words change anything at all? Trust should be based on established facts/research and not species.
- bloak 2y agoA lot of communication isn't about "established facts/research"; it's about someone's experience. For example, if a human writes about their experience of using a product, perhaps a drug, or writes what they think about a book or a film, then I might be interested in reading that. When they write using their own words I get some insight into how they think and what sort of person they are. I have very little interest in reading an AI-generated text with similar "content".
- goatlover 2y agoAn LLM isn't even a species. I prefer communicating with other humans, unless I choose to interact with an LLM. But then I know that it's a text generator and not a person, even when I ask it to act like a person. The difference matters to most humans.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoI'm predicting the future a little with that. As always people accept new ideas at a glacial pace. At what point do we consider some entity alive? At what point do we decide to consider it a species (of living thing)? If we find out there are aliens, biological and therefore similar to us? Sure. What if we meet aliens whose physical forms are synthetic? What if we meet the synthetic creations of biological aliens? I'm not saying that LLMs are alive, of course. But I am saying that I'd consider LLMs to be a precursor to AGI, along with all our our historical artificial intelligence experiments, in the same way that prokaryotes were the precursors to...us.