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What's a philosophical (not overtly political) position that you hold? (lemmy.world)
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[–] -4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

What if something like ChatGPT is trained on a dataset of your life and uses that to make the same decisions as you? It doesn't have a mind, memories, emotions, or even a phenomenal experience of the world. It's just a large language data set based on your life with algorithms to sort out decisions, it's not even a person.

Is that you?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, because not all my decisions are language-based. As gotchas go, this one's particularly lazy.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm having a hard time imagining a decision that can't be language based.

    You come to a fork in the road and choose to go right. Obviously there was no language involved in that decision, but the decision can certainly be expressed with language and so a large language model can make a decision.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But I don't make all my decisions linguistically. A model that did would never act as I do.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago*

    It doesn't matter how it comes to make a decision as long as the outcome is the same.

    Sorry, this is beside the point. Forget ChatGPT.

    What I meant was a set of algorithms that produce the same outputs as your own choices, even though it doesn't involve any thoughts or feelings or experiences. Not a true intelligence, just an NPC that acts exactly like you act. Imagine this thing exists. Are you saying that this is indistinguishable from you?

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