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zazazaza@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoWhat is the point of AI safety if there is no intent to complete goals? Why would we need to align it with our goals if it wasn’t able to create goals and subgoals of its own?
Saying it’s just a “stochastic parrot” is an outdated understanding of how modern LLM models actually work - I obviously can’t convince you of something you yourself don’t believe in but I’m just hoping you can keep an open mind in future instead of rejecting the premise outright (the way early proponents of the scientific method like Descartes rejected the idea that animals could ever be considered intelligent or conscious because they were merely biological “machines”.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
AI doesn’t have goals, it responds to user input. It does nothing on its own without a prompt, because it is literally a machine and does not function on its own like an animal. Descartes being wrong about extremely complex biological creatures doesn’t mean a comparatively simple system magically has consciousness.
When AI reaches a complexity closer to biological life then maybe it could be considered more than a machine, but being complex isn’t even enough on its own.