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Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by lancesells on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:57PM (#35548197)
We reflect, we change, we grow. We have so many other senses that contribute to our "humaness". If you listen to and enjoy music tell me how those feelings are just "predictive text responses".

Communication is one part of being human. A big part for sure, but only one of many.

Re:Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k gro... by SanderNL on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:02AM (#35551166)
What is the qualitative difference between one type of perception and the other?

“Text” are tokens. Tokens are abstract and can be anything. Anything that has structure can be modeled. Which is to say all of reality.

We have a lot of senses indeed. Multimodal I believe it’s called in ML jargon.

I don’t know where enjoyment itself comes from. I like to think it’s a system somewhere that predicts the next perception right getting rewarded.

Qualia are kind of hard to pin down as I’m sure you’ll know.