We should not be using these machines until we’ve solved the hard problem of consciousness.
I see a lot of people say “It can’t think because it’s a machine”, and the only way this makes sense to Me is as a religious assertion that only flesh can have a soul.
I once built a thinking machine out of dominos. Mine added two bits together. Matt Parker’s was way bigger, and could do 8 bits. Children have made thinking machines in Minecraft out of redstone. Thinking machines aren’t very hard.
We should not be using these machines until we’ve solved the hard problem of consciousness.
I see a lot of people say “It can’t think because it’s a machine”, and the only way this makes sense to Me is as a religious assertion that only flesh can have a soul.
If current LLMs are conscious then consciousness is a worthless and pathetic concept.
In theory a machine one day could think
LLMs, however, do not think. Even though the term “think” is used in chatgpt. They don’t think
I once built a thinking machine out of dominos. Mine added two bits together. Matt Parker’s was way bigger, and could do 8 bits. Children have made thinking machines in Minecraft out of redstone. Thinking machines aren’t very hard.