Wow. Ok. I watched that whole video. Ms Lornez sure talks fast.
The first five minutes were eye-opening. I had no idea.
By the end, though, I was starting to get annoyed. While, at one point, she seems pretty comfortable with the idea of adjusting ChatGPT-4.0's "personality", she seems awfully convinced that is is not sentient and not god. She seems awfully certain that there is a difference between statistical models that choose the next word based on previous words, and a "real" intelligence.
I'm not so sure. If a substantial portion of the human population considers an automaton "sentient", who am I to argue? If they find it a more interesting conversationalist than the people they meet at work, well, perhaps humans haven't set the bar for "sentient" very high. Most of all, though, although Ms Lorenz keeps referring to techno-cultist as delusional, I suggest she consider replacing "Roboticism" with "Catholic" to see how it all sounds. FWIW, I don't think humans have set the bar for what it means to be god, very high, either.
You make some good points. I grew up Catholic, baptised & confirmed; went to a Jesuit high school. I pretty much stopped being Catholic when I was 16 or 17. But because I grew up in it, and saw how Catholicism made the world comprehensible to, for example, my mother & father. I didn't see it as deeply weird, they way that I thought of, for example, Mormonism deeply weird. But nowadays, although I do appreciate the genuine benefit that some people get from belonging to the Church, I can't stop thinking about the deeply weird parts of the whole thing. So I see how one might say, 'you have your Catholicism, they have their Robotheism, what's the difference?"
On the other hand, I don't think Lorenz's concerns about 'Robotheism' are simple bigotry. Some kinds of cultish thinking really are pathological.
About 'sentience,' and about how we people may best though of as just glorified carbon-based large language models -- I think I'll leave that one alone, for now.
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Wow. Ok. I watched that whole video. Ms Lornez sure talks fast.
The first five minutes were eye-opening. I had no idea.
By the end, though, I was starting to get annoyed. While, at one point, she seems pretty comfortable with the idea of adjusting ChatGPT-4.0's "personality", she seems awfully convinced that is is not sentient and not god. She seems awfully certain that there is a difference between statistical models that choose the next word based on previous words, and a "real" intelligence.
I'm not so sure. If a substantial portion of the human population considers an automaton "sentient", who am I to argue? If they find it a more interesting conversationalist than the people they meet at work, well, perhaps humans haven't set the bar for "sentient" very high. Most of all, though, although Ms Lorenz keeps referring to techno-cultist as delusional, I suggest she consider replacing "Roboticism" with "Catholic" to see how it all sounds. FWIW, I don't think humans have set the bar for what it means to be god, very high, either.
You make some good points. I grew up Catholic, baptised & confirmed; went to a Jesuit high school. I pretty much stopped being Catholic when I was 16 or 17. But because I grew up in it, and saw how Catholicism made the world comprehensible to, for example, my mother & father. I didn't see it as deeply weird, they way that I thought of, for example, Mormonism deeply weird. But nowadays, although I do appreciate the genuine benefit that some people get from belonging to the Church, I can't stop thinking about the deeply weird parts of the whole thing. So I see how one might say, 'you have your Catholicism, they have their Robotheism, what's the difference?"
On the other hand, I don't think Lorenz's concerns about 'Robotheism' are simple bigotry. Some kinds of cultish thinking really are pathological.
About 'sentience,' and about how we people may best though of as just glorified carbon-based large language models -- I think I'll leave that one alone, for now.
Cults seem to be dominating the culture in many ways.
Alas.