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Re:Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large La... by spacemadness on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:47PM (#34733438)
Language doesn’t come first for humans. Experiencing the world does. Languages then become symbols to communicate experiencing the world through our senses and emotional/mental states. I’m not sure why people get hung up on language models not being the same thing when they start and end with language.
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Re:Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large La... by seba_dos1 on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:27AM (#34740864)
Indeed. Give a model some kind of autonomous sensors, make it stateful with memory and continuous retraining, make it possible for it to act and learn from its actions, maybe even model some kind of hormonal influence etc. and I'm pretty sure that at some point an actual Theory of Mind will actually emerge and we'll be debating what kind of legal rights such a model should possess. We're pretty clearly not at that point yet.
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