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Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity (arstechnica.com)

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[–] SarahValentine@pawb.social 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is that despite being a literally true statement, it relies on the implicit assumption that a system founded in statistics necessarily has limitations that preclude sentience

Nope. We do not assume any system can produce sentience just by being complex. We have no reason to begin with that assumption so there's no assumption to be made in dismissing it.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I am not making the claim that it can produce sentience (personally I don't see sentience as a very meaningful concept anyway), I'm saying the arguments being made here that it cannot are deficient. Reminder of the context: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/77644247/28876812

[–] SarahValentine@pawb.social 1 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

Play semantic games all you like, but nobody who actually understands how this shit works (and doesn't have a vested interest in lying about it to the public) would suggest it's capable of gaining sentience. It's something you shouldn't let people suggest as a serious possibility at this point.