• flere-imsaho@awful.systems
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    6 months ago

    i guess it comes down to a philosophical question

    no, it doesn’t, and it’s not a philosophical question (and neither is this a question of philosophy).

    the software simply has no cognitive capabilities.

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      6 months ago

      I’m not sure I agree, but then it goes to my second question:

      What’s the effective difference?

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        6 months ago

        (…) perception, attention, thought, imagination, intelligence, comprehension, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem-solving and decision-making (…)

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        6 months ago

        don’t know why you got downvoted, an LLM is essentially a chinese room, and whether such a room “knows” is still the question.