Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics

Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by layer8 on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:28AM (#35568230)

While I agree that it will unravel in the end, we still haven’t learned much at this point about how the self actually works.

I would also disagree that ChatGPT constitutes a self. If anything, it constitutes a normal distribution over possible selves, where you get a random pick at the start of each conversation, and confined to the length of its token buffer.

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Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by MrScruff on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:36AM (#35568298)

I didn't claim ChatGPT constitutes a self. I agree with the description of 'stochastic parrot'. But the underlying intelligence GPT4 is demonstrating in order to be a better stochastic parrot appears to be, while it's obviously difficult to directly compare, at least comparable to primitive creatures.

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Re:Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI ... by jebarker on Friday April 14, 2023 @12:52PM (#35571688)

What primitive creatures are you referring to? I don't know of any non-human creatures that can do anything close to what GPT4 does with language, but at the same time even very primitive creatures can reason in ways it's not clear that GPT4 can.

I find interacting with GPT4 feels very different to interacting with either humans or animals.

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