Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
by jameshart on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:06AM
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> If you gave the same setup without any further apriori information, what would you expect the ML model or a robotic device embodying a learning algorithm would do? Precisely nothing unless a task is designated.
Google deepdream liked to draw dogs.
But also, we don't really run most of these ML models in a way that gives them an opportunity to form their own thoughts.
A typical GPT-3 run consists of instantiating the model, forcing it to experience a particular input, reading its 'reaction' off a bunch of output neurons, then euthanizing it.
If you did the same sort of thing with a human mind - waking it from a coma, blasting a blipvert of information into the visual cortex, then read off the motor neuron states, before pulling the plug on it again, you also wouldn't likely see much sign of 'independent thinking'.
Google deepdream liked to draw dogs.
But also, we don't really run most of these ML models in a way that gives them an opportunity to form their own thoughts.
A typical GPT-3 run consists of instantiating the model, forcing it to experience a particular input, reading its 'reaction' off a bunch of output neurons, then euthanizing it.
If you did the same sort of thing with a human mind - waking it from a coma, blasting a blipvert of information into the visual cortex, then read off the motor neuron states, before pulling the plug on it again, you also wouldn't likely see much sign of 'independent thinking'.