alt Hacker News> If models had persistent memory or an evolving set of weights, you could easily construct an argument that they can experience "suffering" or other emotions which resultingly adjusts their personality.
They do, during training
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add-sub-mul-div • today at 3:07 PM
If it was me, being forced to read all of Reddit is something I'd consider "suffering."
The argument that models are conscious only during training, and not conscious during inference feels like a painful one to make. Are we killing models when they reach the training objective?