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It's a Shoggoth. There is no Self there. How do people keep falling for this?
A dystopian nightmare I think about often is one where our children are going to grow up wanting to have romantic relationships with AI. Will we look like bigots to our kids because we don’t recognize their robot love?
Yeah, sadly, cause seemingly all media involving AI deals with AI being real and not the 99.9% likelihood anything humans make attempting AI will not actually be it because it's likely the hardest problem we could ever solve.
I can't think of one piece of fiction were the human-imitating robot isn't supposed to be thought of as conscious. Her and maaaaaaybe Ex Machina, but not reallt.y.
2001: A Space Odyssey? When HAL is begging to not be shutdown are we supposed to deem it as conscious?
A better example is W.O.P.R.from WarGames or Colossus from the Forbin Project. Both of thoseAIs actually learn which today's LLMs can't do. All they are is their training data which is mostly Reddit.
It's my turn to be a bigoted boomer and I chose to be robophobic.
It's like those who treat dogs like people. People are all different, they have feelings, you have to think about them, sometimes they're in a bad mood, the kid gets older and isn't so cute any more. But a dog will always love you.
Treating dogs like people makes more sense. A dog is already 98% like a human, and a dog that's been raised in a human family has a lot of human behaviours and emotions. An algorithm is 0% like a human (or any other sentience) and has 0 behaviours and emotions.
Dogs are natural followers. They WANT you to lead, to be strict and even discipline them. Being kind-hearted to a dog is cruel. We started to live with dogs for solid reasons.They have senses we don't and we are stronger together. Heck, we only got dogs in the first place by kidnapping wolf cubs out of their den. But try explaining this to one of these people and they lose it. The dog jumps up on visitors and tries to hump their legs because they aren't trained and disciplined. We even use BDSM equipment like collars and leashes on them and nobody bats an eye.
uh sure, when i said "treating dogs like people" i meant stuff like having social interactions with them, playing with them, communicating, understanding that they're intelligent, emotional social beings, treating them as part of a family (but different than humans). this is in contrast to an algorithm, with which actual communication or interaction is impossible (only a crude simulation of it), and which has no intelligence, emotion or agency.
They don't treat dogs like people but they do the same thing where because they treat them with any degree of care they have to pretend they're basically human minds trapped in animal bodies because they're so ableist towards "low IQ" creatures that it wouldn't make sense to themselves to be kind to something deemed stupid.
There's no inbetween for "disgusting stupid slave creature" and "the divine human spirit" for most people.
Always glad to have an excuse to post the Krazam sketch.
Yes! Omg that was perfect!
"Harry make me a javascript todo app"
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
that Shoggoth and Claude do be kinda cute tho ngl