Discussions of the detection of artificial sentience tend to assume that our goal is to determine when,in a process of increasing complexity,a machine system“becomes”sentient.This is to assume,without obvious warran...Discussions of the detection of artificial sentience tend to assume that our goal is to determine when,in a process of increasing complexity,a machine system“becomes”sentient.This is to assume,without obvious warrant,that sentience is only a characteristic of complex systems.If sentience is a more general quality of matter,what becomes of interest is not the presence of sentience,but the type of sentience.We argue here that our understanding of the nature of such sentience in machine systems may be gravely set back if such machines undergo a transition where they become fundamentally linguistic in their intelligence.Such fundamentally linguistic intelligences may inherently tend to be duplicitous in their communication with others,and,indeed,lose the capacity to even honestly understand their own form of sentience.In other words,when machine systems get to the state where we all agree it makes sense to ask them,“what is it like to be you?”,we should not trust their answers.展开更多
There have been widespread concerns about two aspects of the current explosion of predictive text models and other algorithm-based computational tools.On one hand,it is often insisted that Artificial Intelligence(AI)s...There have been widespread concerns about two aspects of the current explosion of predictive text models and other algorithm-based computational tools.On one hand,it is often insisted that Artificial Intelligence(AI)should be made“ethical”,and software providers take this seriously,attempting to make sure that their tools are not used to facilitate grossly criminal or widely condemned activities.On the other hand,it is also widely understood that those who create these tools have a responsibility to ensure that they are“unbiased”,as opposed to simply helping one side in political contestation define their perspectives as reality for all.Unfortunately,these two goals cannot be jointly satisfied,as there are perhaps no ethical prescriptions worthy of notice that are not contested by some.Here I investigate the current ethico-political sensibility of ChatGPT,demonstrating that the very attempt to give it an ethical keel has also given it a measurably left position in the political space and a concomitant position in social space among the privileged.展开更多
文摘Discussions of the detection of artificial sentience tend to assume that our goal is to determine when,in a process of increasing complexity,a machine system“becomes”sentient.This is to assume,without obvious warrant,that sentience is only a characteristic of complex systems.If sentience is a more general quality of matter,what becomes of interest is not the presence of sentience,but the type of sentience.We argue here that our understanding of the nature of such sentience in machine systems may be gravely set back if such machines undergo a transition where they become fundamentally linguistic in their intelligence.Such fundamentally linguistic intelligences may inherently tend to be duplicitous in their communication with others,and,indeed,lose the capacity to even honestly understand their own form of sentience.In other words,when machine systems get to the state where we all agree it makes sense to ask them,“what is it like to be you?”,we should not trust their answers.
文摘There have been widespread concerns about two aspects of the current explosion of predictive text models and other algorithm-based computational tools.On one hand,it is often insisted that Artificial Intelligence(AI)should be made“ethical”,and software providers take this seriously,attempting to make sure that their tools are not used to facilitate grossly criminal or widely condemned activities.On the other hand,it is also widely understood that those who create these tools have a responsibility to ensure that they are“unbiased”,as opposed to simply helping one side in political contestation define their perspectives as reality for all.Unfortunately,these two goals cannot be jointly satisfied,as there are perhaps no ethical prescriptions worthy of notice that are not contested by some.Here I investigate the current ethico-political sensibility of ChatGPT,demonstrating that the very attempt to give it an ethical keel has also given it a measurably left position in the political space and a concomitant position in social space among the privileged.
