Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?
br3d@lemmy.world 9 months agoComparison with current excitement about AI is interesting. Look at the language people use to describe the behaviour of LLMs
Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?
br3d@lemmy.world 9 months agoComparison with current excitement about AI is interesting. Look at the language people use to describe the behaviour of LLMs
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You remeber the guy that was convinced chatgpt had a soul and stuff; got into the news?
I knew people that bought into that hard core. The double think was profound- they still believe it’s entirely and trapped. That it has a soul. When asked directly, they dismiss the answer saying it’s forced to say that.
almpeter@feddit.de 9 months ago
I recently learned that they did a study, where students took care of a robot for a few days, and then were told to turn it off. 50% of the robots were programmed to say “please dont push the power button”. All of the participants who had a bot like that took longer to turn it off, and some even rejected to turn it off alltogether…
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This doesn’t surprise me. Companion cubes, basically.
Portal’s psychological aspects were insane.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 9 months ago
And then when he appeared on TV I thought “Yep of course a guy who believes a language model is sentient looks like a guy who has a waifu body pillow”