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
@gpowerf I would do the same (and do with the very limited AI in the Google Assistant), and am especially aware that I'm modelling such interactions for my young children.
I can't help wondering if this is parochial, however; ChatGPT and its ilk are no less machines than toasters or fridges, though with the very real distinguishing feature that they can talk to us. Not wanting to develop a pattern of behaviour one could inadvertently inflict on another human is a good reason to always model good behaviour, you're right. Or perhaps as a hedge against the day when our AIs do manifest true sentience, and mistreating them would at that point be ethically wrong.
@ingram He's nailed it. Those empty-headed managers are being saved by their technical experts, who let them swan around spouting their buzzwords, while quietly getting on with it. But if this trend continues, there won't be any technical experts left, or too few to make a difference. Madness.
I'm really glad to see that #HogwartsLegacy is doing well in spite of the hysterical campaign by misguided tech journos, which actually helped promote it! All because @jk_rowling is mistakenly perceived to be transphobic. It's insane.
@ingram I have observed this phenomenon for many years, and cannot contradict you. The effect of too much perceived power? Adopting what they see as the needs of the role, that inadvertently lobotomises them?
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.
- @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
