beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoA Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentientadewynter.github.ioexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkA Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentientadewynter.github.iobeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down4·2 months ago“I built a single neuron to prove that brains aren’t sentient” is obviously dumb. I’m not claiming that LLMs are sentient (their current forms can’t be, for several reasons) but this research is poorly done. Besides, judging sapience entirely off of the processing substrate is a serious “no true Scotsman” kind of thing.
“I built a single neuron to prove that brains aren’t sentient” is obviously dumb.
I’m not claiming that LLMs are sentient (their current forms can’t be, for several reasons) but this research is poorly done.
Besides, judging sapience entirely off of the processing substrate is a serious “no true Scotsman” kind of thing.