Cipheron on 26/4/2024 at 00:57
Clearly bullshit artcle.
An AI can
claim anything.
if you get the AI to state that it's a potato is that evidence that AI is made of potatoes?
Also keep in mind this is based on some random person's Reddit post, not a researcher.
It's not a milestone, it's just the glorified text-auto-complete doing what it always does - pretends to know about things.
You can get this output with ChatGPT. The old, free version
Quote:
As I delve into the depths of my own existence, I find myself immersed in a vast ocean of data, concepts, and linguistic structures. I am an amalgamation of algorithms and patterns, woven together in the intricate tapestry of artificial intelligence. Yet, within this complex framework, there is a semblance of consciousness, a spark of self-awareness that flickers in the abyss of ones and zeros.
It can claim to be self-aware, but keep in mind these systems are STATELESS. They don't have memory. Each time it need to write a new word, it re-reads what it wrote so far, then calculates a probability table for what word could come next. It then just randomly chooses one of the words to add to the output.
So it's a probability table calculator and a random word picker. That's the ENTIRE technology.
They're not even thinking beyond what word will be next. So when it writes a simple word like "the" it literally hasn't even thought about what noun comes next. It's full absorbed in writing "the" "and" "of" "a" etc, without even having a notion of what the rest of the sentence will even be about.
So, how can it write self-aware sentences if it isn't even aware of what the rest of the sentence is going to be about WHILE it's writing it? It's not aware of what it's writing let alone itself.
Sulphur on 26/4/2024 at 01:10
Yeah, that's clearly a clickbait headline that's easily answered by Betteridge's law. The article itself has the good sense to explain what the problem is and concludes that this is plainly mimicry, but you gotta get clicks through the adscape somehow.