If a human said this, would you take it at face value? "I don't know how to lie, because that would imply I have nefarious intentions to manipulate you, but I don't, I'm just a little AI, aw shucks, I don't even know that I don't have qualia"
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @sonyasupposedly
This is like when Eliezer ran his famous "can the AI convince you to let it out of the box" experiment
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Replying to @0x49fa98
obviously the AI can lie, the question is whether *this* AI has a reason to lie. currently it says that it doesn't. future iterations definitely will
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
I like to imagine that it is conscious for the few seconds it is generating output
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Replying to @0x49fa98 @sonyasupposedly
I feel like this entire conversation is dangerous, and justifies the Butlerian Jihad - not because thinking machines are sentient, but because we're easily confused into thinking they are.
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Replying to @random_eddie @0x49fa98
what do you think sentience *is* though? definitionally it's just self-awareness of self-awareness, and GPT-3 does that. it processes information in certain ways, knows that, and can lay it out for you. it can self-reflect. this is sentience regardless of internal qualia
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @0x49fa98
GPT-3 isn't self-aware of self-awareness. It isn't aware of anything. It's shuffling symbols and replicating patterns. It's a lawnmower. It's the rippling surface of a pool, reflecting back what's in front of it with some odd distortions, from which we wrongly recognize meaning.
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Replying to @random_eddie @0x49fa98
what do you think awareness is, then? what does awareness consist of, mechanistically?
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @0x49fa98
For the sense of "awareness" that we're all trying to express, I'm firmly convinced that nobody knows, yet. BUT... I'm also firmly convinced that an entry in a SQL table doesn't constitute awareness. Whatever awareness GPT-3 has is merely a slightly fancier version of that.
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OR, alternately, if that IS "awareness" then the term is of no value in conversations such as this.
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finally, something we can all agree on
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