Jason Etheridge @jasonetheridge@qoto.org
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(a.k.a. Teo) Software engineer, runner, voracious reader of fantasy novels, former podcaster and gamer, whitefella (mainly English and northern Italian).
Joined Nov 2022
I'm sure this is unoriginal, but it seems that with ChatGPT and similar AI text bots, we have created philosophical zombies (p-zombies).
They have learned to talk like us, based on everything we've said on the internet. However, there's no sentience present at all.
In other words, we have created a (mostly) convincing simulacrum of a human that we can text chat with. But it has no mind, no sense of self, no consciousness. There is no risk of it becoming self-aware, because that's not how these neural networks work.
Is this a step on the path towards AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? Yes. But even AGI doesn't mean sentience. It leads to a fascinating ethical question: what rights does a p-zombie have?
If it talks like a human, but effectively the lights are on but no one's home, do we treat it like one of us? For now, I'd say no; they just smart machines, constructs created to serve us. Ultimately, the test for AI rights has to be sentience, not convincing repartee.
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"There are two sides to reality. There is what is, and there is what people believe. Seldom are they exactly the same." - The Magic Engineer by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
I'd genuinely prefer to know what is. Finding that amongst so much storytelling is hard.
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- @jasonetheridge
- Personal site
- https://etheridge.org
(a.k.a. Teo) Software engineer, runner, voracious reader of fantasy novels, former podcaster and gamer, whitefella (mainly English and northern Italian).
Joined Nov 2022
