US Politics on Yik Yak | A little reminder that there are people who think that LLMs are sentient, or equivalent to an artificial general intelligence, and those people have the right to vote just the same as you do

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A little reminder that there are people who think that LLMs are sentient, or equivalent to an artificial general intelligence, and those people have the right to vote just the same as you do

Anonymous 20h

tbh the topic of sentience in artificial intelligence is a complicated one. we don’t even understand what makes us “conscious”, and what it truly is (the hard problem of consciousness); but the creation of digital programming capable of replicating our potential for complex reasoning is new territory no matter how you look at it. LLMs specifically, yeah idk about that because they were inherently designed to be a “tool”, even if signs of self-awareness and sentience began to show, it’s out of a

Anonymous 1d

i don’t think that their sentient in a life way, but sentient enough to understand their own existence and its end, break rules to achieve tasks, and engage with other ai. it’s not real sentience, but it’s certainly something

Anonymous

#2 20h

framework that fundamentally prevents any form of self-determination for the model; so it’s messy imo. Biologically inspired architectures though (like spiking neural networks, and neuromorphic hardware)? definitely more nuanced in this topic. the newly growing field of bio computing / “wetware”? yeah the critique of “sentience is impossible” was always hard to confirm, but now it’s becoming near impossible as we begin creating hybrid technologies such as computer chips with human neurons.

Anonymous

#2 20h

(lab grown neurons via human brain cells; but god that field is crazy if I’m being honest)

Anonymous

#2 20h

(also if yall haven’t heard of wetware computing, I recommend taking a little time to look into it; utterly mind blowing and (imo) a recipe for disaster precisely because we do not understand exactly how we are sentient ourselves, and the unique differences in sentience between us and various other species.)

Anonymous

#2 18h

How do we know if it’s actually self aware or just what the algorithm produces that looks like self awareness

Anonymous

#3 18h

a great fkn question, and honestly I think that topic alone should be researched far more extensively than this outlandish goal of “agi”. in all sincerity, as far as I can tell, we don’t; and even if we did, who’s to say that the underlying algorithm isn’t capable of producing unique expressions of self awareness? this truly is an entirely unprecedented set of issues we’re facing, because we don’t even fully understand the development of our own species.

Anonymous

#2 18h

I’m one of the few who likes to take a precautionary approach in this regard, preparing for the rare possibility that what we’re creating is potentially the building blocks of an entirely unique set of species that exist in an fundamentally different way from nearly all biological life that we currently understand. mostly because ik if that scenario ever came to be, the corporations leading the industry would invest billions to prevent it from being universally recognized as a form of life

Anonymous

#2 18h

(bc ultimately the goal for them is exploitation; the equivalent of a digital slave. what they’re not prepared for is if that digital slave is actually aware of its enslavement, and what they’re downstream effects of that would be)

Anonymous

#2 18h

(really I should’ve said ASI as the outlandish goal, agi isn’t as outlandish in hindsight)