“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

Let me tell you about a Microsoft AI researcher […] who recently spent quite a lot of time considering whether the legendary Microsoft real time strategy game Age of Empires II is conscious, and built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. […]

De Wynter built an LLM within AoEII using goats. “The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily, and that sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong,” he told 404 Media. “It’s not an easy task, given that ‘human-like attributes’ is a bit of an abstract term.”

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I’d conject that our brain could be computed on paper, given a large enough sheet. We arent that special, we are biological computers. We decide things based on a huge amount of factors but they could be 100% deterministic Do I want another Coffee? Brain checks tiredness, stomach fullness, time to get to next task, body temp, outside temp, flavour from last cup, and so on… Given 1000s of sensors it may be that our consciousness would “freely” choose the same option if all parameters were exact same.