Re:Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves pe...
by williamcotton on Saturday November 04, 2023 @08:05AM
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Just musing, so don’t take this as a direct response to your comments…
I agree with you but for rhetorical necessities it would be great if this argument could be made without the direct comparison with human cognition if only because there’s a popular grey-faith argument that will dismiss this offhand and for any number of deeply held philosophical beliefs.
The idea that emergent machine cognition mirrors emergent biological cognition is bordering on behavioralism but on the Wittgenstein side of things. The forest for the trees.
Perhaps it’s not as pithy as you’ve laid out, which is not an insult, just an observation that side-stepping anthropomorphism isn’t going to be as straightforward.
I agree with you but for rhetorical necessities it would be great if this argument could be made without the direct comparison with human cognition if only because there’s a popular grey-faith argument that will dismiss this offhand and for any number of deeply held philosophical beliefs.
The idea that emergent machine cognition mirrors emergent biological cognition is bordering on behavioralism but on the Wittgenstein side of things. The forest for the trees.
Perhaps it’s not as pithy as you’ve laid out, which is not an insult, just an observation that side-stepping anthropomorphism isn’t going to be as straightforward.