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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Am I missing something, or is the point simply “I can build a computer program in a game that you may be surprised to learn is Turing complete, therefore ai is not sentient?”

I’m not here to argue that AI is sentient, but this is a really lousy argument.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The argument in the paper is a bit more nuanced - it's mostly arguing that we over-anthropomorphise AI, and this taints out results on AI sentience by pre-biasing towards some human like qualities already. Part of this comes from the AI attempting to emulated a human notion of identity.

    Using a contrived goat powered AoE II AI would likely yield less assumed human-like quality bias. It would also be hilarious.

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