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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
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I majored in Philosophy. Though I wouldn't want to be an AI ethics consultant for one of these big companies because I imagine that whatever I write down would have to preserve profits (first and foremost) and then gaslight everyone into thinking it's all perfectly ethical and okay and no one (including mother earth) is being harmed in the process.
You don't need an ethicist if you don't have ethics! /s
I just wish we could put this dumb sentient AI stuff to bed for now. Congrats, you guys built the most powerful (and wasteful) auto-complete. It's not sentient and your marketing doesn't have to be hyperbolic lies.
They don't need to hire an AI ethics consultant, they'll just have the AI do that!
honest question to a philosophy major, why is it so clear cut to you that LLMs are not sentient? what is missing in current systems?
Protip, never ask a Phil major questions, unless you want them to pose more questions. I think the very question itself assumes we can even properly define sentience. If we can, why does it have value as a result? Your home computer may not be sentient, but it's pretty smart, valuable, and could potentially have an equally large impact on the world (not sure about intentionality though). It's not that I'm certain no LLM is sentient (though I'm pretty sure) as much as I see greedy people steering the hype to their benefit in order to exploit others. The whole thing is manufactured to cheapen humanity in comparison to tech. I am very opinionated so you may see it differently.