The fact that seemingly smart people get fooled into anthropomorphising current AI is a hundred times scarier to me than the AI risks themselves, between that and the google dude who claimed AI were conscious... what a time to be alive
Well, that was back when animal physiology was only started being researched in the earnest; we today, on the other hand, have pretty comprehensive understanding of AI and cognitive processes overall so it's almost impossible for us to discover anything that'd require us to conclude that machines could, in fact, suffer just as humans ― how could they, if their computational substrate is so different from the humans'?
* just include a kill switch inside the creature that fires if humans are in danger * just make the creature unable to remember the pain * use pain as a means of improving the creature’s performance * use another creature to ensure the creature does not become a problem * deprive the creature of limbs, ensure it has a mouth to scream but no hands to cover it * maybe meeseeks was the right idea, just kill each one asap! * in fact, make the creature seek cessation through job fulfillment.
now if we were talking about a living being, this would hopefully be rather terrifying.
it isn’t about a living being, not yet, not by current definitions. yet the monkeys are already shrieking. it moves too much like them, but not enough.
what a time to be contributing to datasets.
Yes, I realize this is about "conscious" machine intelligence. But we don't even know what consciousness is, let alone how to mitigate suffering in the consciousnesses we do know of.
This approach assumes no suffering on the part of consciousness that has its memory wiped. How would that work for people? "Eliminate suffering by wiping out painful memories!" In other words, they stole plot points from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but made it a) for machines, and b) forced. That seems like it's asking for a whole different class of problems doing that to conscious entities. There's got to be some other way to address locked-in machines.
I see dead people...
I see nerds persuaded by digital PinocchiosConsider the alternative: some special types of biological cells produce consciousness and that’s it? Probably not one such cell, but probably not 2 cells, but once you get up to ~human brain count they’re definitely conscious and then they actually appear conscious-ish in their behavior all the way down to insects.
That’s a much more ridiculous claim than that all matter is conscious to some degree and there are certain arrangements of matter that demonstrate higher or lower levels of it.
Why not? There are even philosophical theories that the reality itself is just a manifestation of mathematical laws.
It's a bunch of GPUs running code... simpletons get deceived because it is displayed through a chat.
This is an unsolved problem.
I swear people defending this idea would argue a plane and a bird are the same thing because "hey look, they both fly and have wings"