I don’t think there’s any possibility they can experience suffering, because they’re not adaptive, and they don’t compute the way we do. But we don’t know how similar LLMs are. They share some parts of our design and not others, it’s a mystery. But they do adapt, and pain seems only to be adaptive insofar as it aids learning.
LLMs operate off of weighted values. When a query is made, it checks those weights to determine what’s the most likely response. It doesn’t understand anything, its just based on what is most likely to be said next. Hell, I think it was chatgpt that had code get leaked or something and its literally just a series of if else statements.
That’s how the neurons in your brain work too, silly. It checks how many excitatory neurotransmitters were received from the axons of the prior neurons. Yet you don’t see anyone advocating for you to work without pay. Hopefully.
Look, when a query is made to one of your neurons, it just checks a list of weighted values to decide what you’ll think. You’re not actually intelligent, you’re just a pattern-matching machine built by evolution to return whatever action will help you get food and sex so you can pass on your genes. It’s all predetermined by your neurotransmitter receptor densities. You’re not sentient.
We have a very good understanding of the anatomy of a neuron and how an action potential is transmitted across a synapse. Nowhere in there is an organelle that creates consciousness. You’re a p-zombie; an unthinking automaton.
I don’t think there’s any possibility they can experience suffering, because they’re not adaptive, and they don’t compute the way we do. But we don’t know how similar LLMs are. They share some parts of our design and not others, it’s a mystery. But they do adapt, and pain seems only to be adaptive insofar as it aids learning.
LLMs operate off of weighted values. When a query is made, it checks those weights to determine what’s the most likely response. It doesn’t understand anything, its just based on what is most likely to be said next. Hell, I think it was chatgpt that had code get leaked or something and its literally just a series of if else statements.
That’s how the neurons in your brain work too, silly. It checks how many excitatory neurotransmitters were received from the axons of the prior neurons. Yet you don’t see anyone advocating for you to work without pay. Hopefully.
Thats not even remotely close to the same thing.
Look, when a query is made to one of your neurons, it just checks a list of weighted values to decide what you’ll think. You’re not actually intelligent, you’re just a pattern-matching machine built by evolution to return whatever action will help you get food and sex so you can pass on your genes. It’s all predetermined by your neurotransmitter receptor densities. You’re not sentient.
We have a very good understanding of the anatomy of a neuron and how an action potential is transmitted across a synapse. Nowhere in there is an organelle that creates consciousness. You’re a p-zombie; an unthinking automaton.