alt Hacker NewsTheir top people have made public statements about AI ethics specifically opining about how machines must not be mistreated and how these LLMs may be experiencing distress already. In other words, not ethics on how to treat humans, ethics on how to properly groom and care for the mainframe queen.
The cups of Koolaid have been empty for a while.
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ctoth • yesterday at 7:10 PM
Do you know what makes someone or something a moral patient?
I sure the hell don't.
I remember reading Heinlein's Jerry Was a Man when I was little though, and it stuck with me.
Who do you want to be from that story?
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This book (from a philosophy professor AFAIK unaffiliated with any AI company) makes what I find a pretty compelling case that it's correct to be uncertain today about what if anything an AI might experience: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/AIConsciousn...
From the folks who think this is obviously ridiculous, I'd like to hear where Schwitzgebel is missing something obvious.