Jason Etheridge @jasonetheridge@qoto.org

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My kids have brainwashed me into pronouncing Ninjago as "Nin-JA-go". Sigh.

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How long has this been going on and they've been undetected or ignored?

I find myself hoping we're not pissing off some innocent alien tourists. 😀

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64614098

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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.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/08/hogwarts-legacy-harry-potter-video-game-boycott-rowling-transphobia-warner-discovery-avalanche/

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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🦊FoxiMax #167 4/8
https://foximax.com/

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