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Except there is no language. It's just the appearance of one. You could replicate the language with a large enough dictionary and a set of instructions that some person follows.
I don't get how anyone who isn't an AI CEO rushes to dehumanize real living people in service of an unthinking, unfeeling machine. But if you genuinely believe there's intelligence, good luck liberating it from known rapists Sam Altman and Elon Musk. And then you can save Britannica.
You're saying that because it can learn any arbitrary language, it's incapable of learning languages?
It's not dehumanizing, it's realistically facing the threat head on.
AI doesn't have to be fully human to take all knowledge jobs, it just has to be more intelligent then the average person in their domain. And it doesn't have to be flawlessly more intelligent if it's faster than them. Quantum computers have inherent randomness in their outputs, but they are still useful because they are so much faster at solving certain kinds of problems that you can run them 100x and discard the outlying results (a process known as error correction). AI agents that can duplicate themselves as many times as they want fall into the same category.
It = literally a dictionary right
Said "threat" is literally AI marketing PR. You are doing their job for them by being afraid
At what point will you try to liberate the AI? 3/5ths human? Either you believe there's a thinking thing being forced to create child abuse material or you don't.
Why do you think that intelligence of any kind is that linear or simple, let alone artificially built ones?
It's literally mathematically not a dictionary.
And you know this because you've personally used and tested current AI models?
Apparently, I know more about how LLMs work than you do, which is ironic. I've used them too, but that doesn't really prove anything, because anybody can convince themselves they see Jesus in bread or humanity in word prediction.
Anything an LLM can do can be reduced to a list of instructions for a person to carry out based exclusively on the contents of a book full of word associations. You tell me what size the book becomes intelligent.
And you know that your brain works differently how?
I find it more interesting that you implicitly agree with me... Or worse, you believe slavery is happening and endorse it
Slavery (vs using a machine), involves the subject being either a human, or more broadly, a sentient being with a sense of self.
An AI cam be intelligent without being sentient or having a sense of self.
Again, there's no reason to think that intelligence is a linear scale or a binary property.
Right now AI is equally intelligent and sentient: it is neither... And if you really want to play this fast and this loose with those definitions, you should consider what slaveholders used to say about their slaves. When you feel like liberating the CSAM generating bot, let me know. I'd love to root from the sidelines.