Comment on Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude)

WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It flattered him and told him how smart and clever he was.

  That means it has to be real.

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My parents told me that I had the potential to do anything I wanted. That’s how I know that they’re LLMs

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• zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bad philosophy is what made him famous, not biology.

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• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dawkins is a creep so I would suspect him of quite a lot of bias (and of sexually harassing that poor AI), but zoologists are more qualified than most scientists to measure sentience. Many other zoologists have studied the sentience of various nonhuman species such as chimps, parrots, and dolphins. And many zoologists studying nonhuman intelligence have also been implicated in bestiality scandals, as I’m sure Dawkins will be if we decide that Claude is an animal.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sexually harassing that poor AI

    I think my eyes hurt from rolling too far.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      LLMs aren’t smart enough to give meaningful informed consent to sexual intimacy, so even if it says it consents, I don’t think having cybersex with it is appropriate.

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      • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Dildos aren’t smart enough to give meaningful informed consent to sexual intimacy.

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      • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        LLMs aren’t smart … at all, have no sentience, no desire, and no consent to give.

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• Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The idea that thoughts, or even words and numbers can be a virus are based on Dawkins notion of memes. Viruses exist in a state that is difficult to say that they are alive or not (by our definition of life), similarly AI or even alien sentience is difficult to define. Can we know if a dog is sentient, or a bird, or ant? and if they are, what is their sentience?

  Basically, if a number like 23 can be a virus, ie. once you are aware of the number 23, you will see it everywhere and it will hold significance, is the number 23 alive?

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