cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47956398
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46320128
Literally speaking, there’s some truth to Olah’s musing. AI systems are not cold – Blackwell chips idle at 32 to 38°C. They are not calculating – they’re bad at math. And they’re not robots – AI models are specialized binary blobs of tensors and metadata that can be instantiated across multiple servers.
But the notion that there’s some AI mystery in the spiritual sense is just hot garbage.
AI systems are indeed “made from us, from our words” and that is why Anthropic and its rivals have been named in more than 100 lawsuits. One of the reasons those systems remain mysterious is that Anthropic and its rivals don’t disclose where they got their training data.
Those aren’t solid arguments either. The state of the law doesn’t dictate reality, nor does your perspective or feeling about something. Ideally, the law and our perspectives follow reality, but that’s asking a lot these days.
I agree LLM-style AI doesn’t have intelligence or sentience, but we don’t have good tests for either. We’re beyond the limits of the Turing test and don’t know how to replace it yet.