https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222681316_Motor_res...
Is this not more a reflection on the limits of humans trying to understand what's going on? I'm starting to appreciate the prescience of the folks who suggest someone will elevate these to God-status before long.
Sure, but we also don't understand what's "going on" with interacting neurons in our brain giving rise to our intelligent experience.
The other sentence is just a strawman you constructed for yourself.
I did not construct anything. There are comments in this discussion suggesting it will happen. I just happen to agree, it will probably happen. We are easily fooled into seeing sentience where there is no evidence it exists, merely because it looks convincing. And then hand-wave it away saying (paraphrasing) "well, if it looks good enough, what's the difference?"
You basically accused the GP of saying that these machines were Gods.
"Sentience" is a word game, the GP said emergent intelligence [likely also a word game].
We're just a create-more-of-ourselves machine and we've managed to get pretty crazy emergent behavior ourselves.
People go so far as to argue these LLMs aren't just broadly highly intelligent, but sentient... They've been out for a while now and this sentiment seems to be pretty sticky.
It's not such a big deal with ChatGPT because it's so locked down and impersonal. But Bings version has no such restrictions, and spews even more bullshit in a bunch of dangerous ways.
Imagine thinking it's super-intelligent and sentient, and then it starts regurgitating that vaccines are actually autism-causing nanoprobes by the Gates Foundation... Or any other number of conspiracies spread across the web.
That would be a powerful endorsement for people unaware of how it actually works.
I even had it tell me to kill myself with very little prompting, as I was interested in seeing if it had appropriate safeties. Someone not in their right mind might be highly persuaded by that.
I just have this sinking feeling in my stomach that this rush to release these models is all heading in a very, very nasty direction.
After the world burns for a while, they may decide that software developers are witches, and burn us all.
It legitimately seems like we're trying to speedrun our way into a real-life Butlerian Jihad.
Instead it sounds more like a rotten acting teenager on 4-chan where there are no repercussions for their actions, which unsurprisingly as a massive undertone of post in all places on the internet.
I mean if you took a child and sent them to internet school where random lines from the internet educated them, how much different would the end product be?