[ExI] Is the GPT-3 statistical language model conscious?

[Mike Dougherty]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 5:18 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> This also might help if you want a lot more detail:
> https://jalammar.github.io/how-gpt3-works-visualizations-animations/
>
> That said, I don't believe GPT-3 is intelligent or conscious.  It's
> another deep learning parlor trick, albeit an impressive one, with some
> real world applications.
>
> I happen to be very interested in text generation via AI, so I'm not
> disparaging it by any means, but like all this other stuff, it's dead
> behind the eyes.
>

So are many of the biological IO machines

I assume the AI will respond to me as good or bad as it gets, so it's still
a good idea to treat others as you want to be treated (even the artificial
others) - in a computer mediated interface between the inside and outside
worlds, how can the "real people" assert what is real?  I know JKC claims
to be the only one who he is sure is real, but I don't trust that any
sufficiently advanced ML algorithm is indistinguishable from JKC...  and i
have no idea if we've been interacting with the original or the copy,  so
there's no difference anyway.

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