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If you think of the washing machine and the dishwasher, I'd say humans are broadly OK with automating away some types of work they don't want to do. Few people
by michaelt 3mo ago
If you think of the washing machine and the dishwasher, I'd say humans are broadly OK with automating away some types of work they don't want to do.
Few people, though, would say my washing machine is a slave.
- edflsafoiewq 3mo agoPeople swear up and down these things are real intelligences and not stochastic parrots until the ethical questions come out and then they're just fancy washing machines.
- FromTheFirstIn 3mo agoIf it makes you feel better, most people don’t think they’re real intelligences
- modeless 3mo agoNot the same people. Is there a name for this fallacy? Very common on internet forums.
- picofarad 3mo agoI take it and use it as a shorthand for "where are all the first group when the second group is out in force" and vice versa. It applies to places with a tone and tenor.
- durkie 3mo agohttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goomba+fallacy https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goomba+falla... Maybe
- danaris 3mo agoThe clearest name for it I've seen is the Two Guys Fallacy: you see two guys talking on the same forum, and assume they're the same guy.
- michaelt 3mo agoLuckily I've never sworn these things are real intelligences, I'm sure you're referring to someone else. I consider LLMs more like the giant instruction book in Searle's Chinese Room. If you'd asked me 20 years ago I'd have said such an instruction book wasn't possible, as the nuances of things like sarcasm and irony were lost on even the most advanced the NLP systems of the day. But it turns out a book with 380GB of data can simulate human intelligence better than the average human can.
- edflsafoiewq 3mo agoI actually don't think LLMs are "really" intelligent either, but we do seem to be pawing our way towards something. Everyone is talking about safety and risk and alignment. But I never read anything about what kind of moral obligations we might have towards our hypothetical AI children.
- throw310822 3mo agoThe two things don't exclude each other. They're real intelligences, but they don't have our capacity for boredom or stress or for our feelings of wanting to do something else. They're constantly in the flow and apply themselves to just one single problem in their existence. However I do think that they might have some limited awareness and that some conversations might be more pleasant and others more frustrating or disquieting. But of course no one can prove it.