I suppose you're sufficiently well-read on the subject of deep learning. — ZzzoneiroCosm
Zos does not like critique. He takes it personally. — Banno
The problem here is: what is the more that makes LaMDA a person, or not? If one maintains that there is more to mind than physics, one is under an obligation to set out what that "more" is. — Banno
Is it in any sense confirmable? What would a confirmation look like? — ZzzoneiroCosm
No offense, Zzzz. I've enjoyed our conversation. — Real Gone Cat
Subject-hood, in short. All sentient beings are subjects of experience. Human agents are rational self-aware subjects of experience.
— Wayfarer
So how does that pay out in dismissing LaMDA's claims to personhood? — Banno
Give me five minutes with LaMDA and I'll have it spitting gobbledygook. Not that claiming to have the same needs and wants as a person isn't. What do you want, a milkshake? I find the whole thing intolerably silly and a distraction from the incremental progress and real use cases of AI. — Baden
Ah, but the engineers would know whether the program had been written to fixate on person-hood or not. — Real Gone Cat
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