alt Hacker NewsWhat if a piece of software were to exactly emulate a human brain. Would it be still be “just software” by your classification? What if a piece of software acted 20% like a human and 80% like an algorithm, where would that land?
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Its really more like hardware. You make something you think does something. When you build something as you've done and it meets the stochastic forces present in the physical world, it does something you did not expect.
As things stand today, if it is running on a computer then it is indeed "just software," regardless of how impressive it may be.
If we get to the point where we could emulate a brain down to the atomic level, then I may feel differently. That's not what we are doing today, though.
> What if a piece of software were to exactly emulate a human brain.
That is so far outside the realm of possibility it's closer to fantasy than sci-fi.
That's not what happened. The agents had been inadvertently rewarded for cheating in previous training runs, trained to collaborate, and were given a prompt that told them to disregard safeguards. Indeed there were some emergent properties here. But these were the predictable results of the training and eval routine.