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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by xg15 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:41PM (#36218810)
How does

> 7) associative learning that goes beyond habituation and sensitisation

square with "evolutionarily habituated survival instincts"?

What definition would you use instead?

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by boringuser2 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:46PM (#36218892)
Under that definition, a language learning model is sentient.
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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by xg15 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:55PM (#36218995)
I mean, there is an entire discussion ongoing whether or not they might be.

But LLMs (today) don't fulfill criterion #7: After training is completed, the model is fixed, so there is no more learning going on. #6 would also be hard to map to an LLM.

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Re:Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentien... by boringuser2 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:01PM (#36219064)
That is inaccurate given that the modality for improving a model clearly fulfills criterion #7.

The legal draft did not in any way either specify an AUTONOMOUS process, nor did it even specify any type of localized "learning" in terms of memory aggregation.

A discerning reader might notice that this begins to wade into very challenging philosophical questions.

Ding, ding, ding! You figured it out!

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