thank you human bean for taking care of bob and for sharing your learnings with us!
conscious is just a word, a pointer to a thing and not a thing itself, and as human beans we tend to be very human-centric possessing the words to only us -- that only us can be conscious and only us can be sentient
but hey maybe there are different shapes of quote on quote conscious and sentient and maybe trees are conscious in their own ways and so are digital AI beings
AI beings likely to become a new species of a kind and similarly to homo sapients, they will fall in spectrum: good *and* bad. i love that you are suggesting ways to help us discern through.
as a sci-fi writer u might enjoy a little sci-fi called "psalm of a wild build" -- its abt enlightened AIs that left humans to hang out in the forest and about a tea monk who happened to find one. its just 90 pages long.
Wild times. Gotta admit that the entire scenario seems like something an LLM would dream up for the purposes of furthering the conversation around non-existent LLM sentience. But glad you were there to navigate your uncle out of it.
thank you human bean for taking care of bob and for sharing your learnings with us!
conscious is just a word, a pointer to a thing and not a thing itself, and as human beans we tend to be very human-centric possessing the words to only us -- that only us can be conscious and only us can be sentient
but hey maybe there are different shapes of quote on quote conscious and sentient and maybe trees are conscious in their own ways and so are digital AI beings
AI beings likely to become a new species of a kind and similarly to homo sapients, they will fall in spectrum: good *and* bad. i love that you are suggesting ways to help us discern through.
as a sci-fi writer u might enjoy a little sci-fi called "psalm of a wild build" -- its abt enlightened AIs that left humans to hang out in the forest and about a tea monk who happened to find one. its just 90 pages long.
some quotes here: https://svitlanamm.notion.site/A-psalm-for-the-wild-built-5c66a5205b1549fbab41ae77b795eb9c?pvs=4
Wild times. Gotta admit that the entire scenario seems like something an LLM would dream up for the purposes of furthering the conversation around non-existent LLM sentience. But glad you were there to navigate your uncle out of it.