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Re:People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners by rich_sasha on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:02AM (#34833234)
This is true, yet also feels like a technicality. I'm also not claiming btw. that ChatGPT is AGI.

It's not hard to picture a successor to ChatGPT which has memory and state, either via continuous retraining, explicit log lookup, or some kind of RNN-like mechanism (or anything else, doesn't really matter).

What then?

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Re:People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners by Jensson on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:50AM (#34833552)
At that point it will be good to remember that many thought a stateless function was conscious.

I think it might be possible to make conscious machines, but just as basically every human recognizes humans as conscious when we have a conscious machines we should expect basically every human to think that it is obviously conscious. So at that point there will no longer be a discussion, we might still not treat it ethically like how we don't treat animals ethically, but people will recognize it and then it will be a discussion what is ethical to do with such beings.

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