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What it really boils down to is "the machine doesn't have a soul". Just an unfalsifiable and ultimately meaningless objection.
by lupusreal 1y ago
What it really boils down to is "the machine doesn't have a soul". Just an unfalsifiable and ultimately meaningless objection.
- tonkinai 1y agoMaybe the soul is not as mysterios as we think it is?
- lupusreal 1y agoThere is no empirical test for souls.
- skissane 1y agoMaybe panpsychism is true and the machine actually does have a soul, because all machines have souls, even your lawnmower. But possibly the soul of a machine running a frontier AI is a bit closer to a human soul than your lawnmower’s soul is.
- sfink 1y agoBy that logic, Larry Ellison would have a soul. You've disproven panpsychism! Congratulations!
- gitremote 1y agoIncorrect. Vertebrate animal brains update their neural connections when interacting with the environment. LLMs don't do that. Their model weights are frozen for every release.
- lupusreal 1y agoAs I understand it, octopuses have their reasoning and intelligence essentially baked into them at birth, shaped by evolution, and do relatively little learning during life because their lives are so short. Very intelligent, obviously, but very unlike people.
- pizza 1y agoBut why can’t I then just say, actually, you need to relocate the analogy components; activations are their neural connections, the text is their environment, the weights are fixed just like our DNA is, etc.