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That's just reductive semantics. Anything can be described as "nothing but data".
by root_axis 5mo ago
That's just reductive semantics. Anything can be described as "nothing but data".
- digitaltrees 5mo agoSensory data is a specific data set that corresponds to phenomena in the world. But to say that LLMs don’t have senses merely because they are linguistic or computational doesn’t follow when they can take in data from the world that similarly reflects something about the world.
- root_axis 5mo agoThey don't have senses because they don't have a body. It's just a program. Do weights on a hard drive have consciousness? Does my installation of starcraft have consciousness? It doesn't make any sense.
- arcfour 5mo agoThere are robots with AI controlling them, so it doesn't hold that they don't all have bodies. They can see, they can move. (I'm still not sure that that makes them conscious, or if we can even determine that at all, but I don't think that's a fair argument.)
- AlecSchueler 5mo ago> They don't have senses because they don't have a body Surely "having senses" is predicated more on "being able to sense the world around you" than "having a body." > Does my installation of starcraft have consciousness? Can your installation of StarCraft take in information about the world and then reason about its own place in that world?
- digitaltrees 5mo agoBodies aren’t necessary for senses. I can send a picture to Claude. I can send a series of pictures. That’s usually called a sense of vision. I could connect it to a pressure sensor and that would be touch.
- digitaltrees 5mo agoThe weights on your hard drive might have consciousness if they can respond to stimuli in ways other conscious brains do. That’s the whole point of the Turing test, it’s a criteria for when the threshold of reasonable interpretation is crossed.
- vidarh 5mo agoHow do you measure this consciousness?
- vidarh 5mo agoHow do you imagine a brain can distinguish data from a real sense and data from another source?