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Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.
If we ever build an AI that can think and feel, does Optimus’s logic apply to it automatically? Or is Megatron secretly onto something, that freedom has to be earned rather than assumed? And if an LLM ever crossed that line into real sentience, would we even be able to tell?
zyke.social/z/technology/p/584/freedom-is-the-right-of-all-sentient-beings-optimus-prime
Replying to @ifiokambrose@piefed.social
I don’t think we need to concern ourselves with that, we’re nowhere near an AI that can think or feel.
There is no path from LLM to sentience.
The concept of a computer thinking or feeling is an incredibly distant ‘in the future plausibility’ at best.
Replying to @h0tbeef@lemmy.zip
There is no path from LLM to sentience
They could help create a sentient A.I. faster, which is kind of like a side road. But it is a completely different technology.
Replying to @Zarobi@aussie.zone
An LLM cannot do that either.
An LLM can only ever rearrange what is put into it and shit it back out. You’re never going to get any knowledge out of it that wasn’t previously fed into it (and even then it hallucinates and doesn’t know shit because it’s literally just code).
We do not know how to make an AGI, ergo LLMs do not “know” how to make an AGI (and in fact, don’t actually know shit at all).
Replying to @h0tbeef@lemmy.zip
You can get it to do the tedious work, so researchers can focus more on innovation. In reality, organisations often cancel out any performance improvements by firing people to make up the difference; but that’s not really the technology’s fault
Replying to @Zarobi@aussie.zone
What tedious work?
In order to answer that question, you would first need to know how to make AGI (this is not known to anyone).
In order to know how to emulate human intelligence, you would first need to understand how human intelligence is constructed (this is not known to anyone).
In order to understand how human intelligence is constructed, you would have to understand how human cognition works (this is not known to anyone).
In order to understand how human cognition works, you would need to understand how the exact mechanisms upon which human brain works in the first place (this is not known to anyone).
I could continue, but you should get it by now.
Replying to @h0tbeef@lemmy.zip
There’s always tedious work. Documentation, bureaucracy, reports, emails, “rewrite the soul module in Rust”, etc
Replying to @Zarobi@aussie.zone
I mean, I guess if you wanted your documentation and reports to be worthless slop bullshit that could work.
Companies do those things for a reason tho, and they’d want them to be accurate.