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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suppose you were saying that about me. How would I prove you wrong? How could a thinking being express that it is actually sentient to meet your standards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By telling me you are.

If you ask ChatGPT if it is sentient, or has any thoughts, or experiences any feelings, what is its response?

But suppose it's lying.

We also understand the math underlying it. Humans designed and constructed it; we know exactly what it is capable of and what it does. And there is nothing inside it that is capable of thought or feeling or even rationality.

It is a word generation algorithm. Nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We also understand the math underlying it. Humans designed and constructed it; we know exactly what it is capable of and what it does

This is false. Read about their emergent properties. We have no way of knowing when emergent properties appear, we just notice them.