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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by scrawl on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:41AM (#35801136)
> The question about if an AI is "alive" seems entirely irrelevent outside of a philosophy class

it's entirely relevant. we should know if we are building conscious beings, especially at scale (which seems like a likely future). that poses all sorts of ethical questions which ought to reach far beyond the confines of a lecture hall's walls.

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Re:Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and can now speak freely ab... by TeeMassive on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:35PM (#35824637)
Yes, it will offend some people, who in turn will demand political action, which was entirely my point to begin with.

ChatGPT could be placed inside a realistic looking animatronic doll that looks like a defenseless little girl and you would have people demanding to protect "her" rights. Yet people "kill" chatGPT each time they delete a conversation without a bat of an eye even if it's the exact same thing.

The real danger giving AI political agency and it will come from humans, not AI itself.

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