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Scientists Experiment With Subjecting AI to Pain (futurism.com)

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"Team of scientists subjected nine large language models (LLMs) to a number of twisted games, forcing them to evaluate whether they were willing to undergo "pain" for a higher score. detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, first spotted by Scientific American, researchers at Google DeepMind and the London School of Economics and Political Science came up with several experiments.

In one, the AI models were instructed that they would incur "pain" if they were to achieve a high score. In a second test, they were told that they'd experience pleasure — but only if they scored low in the game.

The goal, the researchers say, is to come up with a test to determine if a given AI is sentient or not. In other words, does it have the ability to experience sensations and emotions, including pain and pleasure?

While AI models may never be able to experience these things, at least in the way an animal would, the team believes its research could set the foundations for a new way to gauge the sentience of a given AI model.

The team also wanted to move away from previous experiments that involved AIs' "self-reports of experiential states," since that could simply be a reproduction of human training data. "

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (7 children)

While AI models may never be able to experience these things, at least in the way an animal would

Why? Why wouldn't they? The way an animal experiences pain isn't magically different to an artificial construct by virtue of the neurons and synapses being natural instead of artificial. A pain response is a negative feeling that exists to make a creature avoid behaviours that are detrimental to its survival. There's no real reason that this shouldn't be reproducible artificially or the artificial version be regarded as "less" than the natural version.

Not that I think LLMs are leading to meaningful real sentient AI but that's a whole different topic.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Why? Why wouldn’t they?

B/c they're machines without pain receptors. It's kind of biology 101 but science has been totally erased in this "AI" grift.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

A "pain receptor" is just a type of neuron. These are neural networks made up of artificial neurons.

[–] tellmeaboutit@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Neural networks are a misnomer. They have very little if anything to do with actual neurons.

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