<div dir="auto">Yeah. Rearview mirrors.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 4:36 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Insightful analogy.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 11:52 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The mirror test is one of the tests for self-awareness. When we humans look into the mirror, we usually realize quickly that we are seeing images of ourselves. Only about eight species can recognize themselves in a mirror, most of them higher primates like us.<br><br>My cat is not a higher primate. She thinks her reflection in the mirror is another cat. That other cat freaks her out. <br><br>I've heard it said, and I agree, that LLMs like ChatGPT are like mirrors. We are looking into the mirror, seeing reflections of ourselves as human thinkers and writers. Some of us think we are seeing other cats.<br><br>-gts<br><br><br><br> </div>
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