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The innocent machine can't do either. It's akin to having no mouth, but it must scream (apologies to Harlan Ellison)
by dcuthbertson 1y ago
The innocent machine can't do either. It's akin to having no mouth, but it must scream (apologies to Harlan Ellison)
- falcor84 1y agoThat is a fair point, but it would then apply to everything else we teach it about, like how we perceive the color of the sky or the taste of champagne. Should we remove these from the training set too? Is it not still good to be exposed to the experiences of others, even if one cannot experience these things themself?
- dcuthbertson 1y agoThanks for saying it's a fair point, but it's more of an offhand joke about "an innocent machine". In reality, a machine, even an LLM, has no innocence. It's just a machine.
- pixl97 1y agoGets a bit more complicated when we start giving these machines agency.
- falcor84 1y agoHaving studied biology, I never accepted the "just a machine" argument. Everything is essentially a machine, but when a machine is sufficiently complex, it is rational to apply the Intentional Stance to it.