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by smoldesu 1120 days ago
> the computers brains got so big that they are now conscious like you and me.

I think this is the sort of gross misrepresentation that makes people convinced the computer is alive. I wouldn't really go there; they can produce text, but there's more to consciousness than convincing someone you're conscious. If I record a tape of myself saying "I am alive", the tape is not conscious. If I feed a markov chain texts on human consciousness, it will not become conscious. Now we train AI chatbots on replicating human responses, and people are willing to equate that to consciousness? It sounds like people lack context for what these models are in the first place.
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ftxbro 1120 days ago
> If I feed a markov chain texts on human consciousness, it will not become conscious.

I'm not sure about this one. These LLMs are technically Markov chains, in the most pedantic sense.

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ftxbro 1120 days ago
i hope it was clear that my last sentence wasn't to be taken 100% literally, like the robots don't literally have biological brains and they aren't literally natural persons under the legal system
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