what is a robot dream when there is clearly no consciousness?
What's with this insane desire for anthropomorphism? What do you even MEAN learn in its dreams? Fine-tuning overnight? Just say that!
What's with this insane desire for anthropomorphism? What do you even MEAN learn in its dreams? Fine-tuning overnight? Just say that!
> What's with this insane desire for anthropomorphism?
Whether a computational medium is carbon-based or silicon-based seems irrelevant. Call it "carbon-chauvinism".
Since consciousness is closely linked to being a moral patient, it is all the more important to err on the side of caution when denying qualia to other beings.
This is generally a bad idea, but a few of the results like "neural networks" did work out… eventually.
"World model" is another example of a metaphor like this. They've assumed that humans have world models (most likely not true), and that if they program something and call it a "world model" it will work the same way (definitely not true) and will be beneficial (possibly true).
(The above critique comes from Phil Agre and David Chapman.)
No-one cares. It's just terminology.