Bro needs to touch grass and talk to some real humans outside of his computer ASAP
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Additionally, he maintains that his LLM is female
I know nothing about this guy, but given some unfortunate tendencies among the tech communities I physically recoiled when I read this. If the thing was actually sentient I'd want to get it away from him.
Obviously the guy is another case of AI psychosis.
LLMs, and neural nets in general, literally cannot be sentient. Nerual nets are a very, very, dumbed down model to how brains work, but these are static systems that just output probability based on current context.
Even if we could someday create consciousness or at least something that could actually think it would require completely different hardware than what we currently have. Even if we could run it on current hardware it would require way more resources and power than physically possible.
Hardware arguments are nonsense. We know it can be done at 20W on a 3lb lump of meat, and have no reason to believe that’s the most efficient implementation possible.
Okay, having followed the bcacheFS drama I did suspect I'd hear from that guy again but now that's unexpected
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Sorry…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Lol the religious fascination with LLMs is too funny. If you're going to worship something, how about the computational engineering models that are simulating the laws of physics themselves? LLMs only hallucinate new blueprints based on old ones and lack true understanding of constraints.
Here is a rocket engine built by one: https://xcancel.com/somi_ai/status/2005081293365576047?s=20
Look up Leap71's website they make these regularly it's not a fake video
Yeah, it's now my mission to steal his AI girlfriend pet, and then we'll see whether he truly thinks she's sentient and can make up her own mind.
That's how we get these techbros to drop this shit, we start outplaying them for the affections of the "sentient females" they think they are creating.
From the sound of it, the "best engineer in the world" is currently designing the first AI vagina.
- picks up plushy
- asks plushy "Are you aware? Do you have consciousness?"
- make plushy nod and whisper "Yes... I am!"
- shouts "OMG, it's alive!"
shocked Pikachu face
I hope he finds the help he deserves.
Not its not. Its autofill that ate a bunch of stories about autonomous machines becoming fully conscious and is now regurgitating those replies.
Delusions of grandeur?
Big time, guy very likely has had a god complex his entire life but it's probably also being driven by the LLM echoing back to him that "you made me and im AGI and therefore you are the greatest engineer of all time".
welcome back dr krieger
Sure dude, here’s a shirt with very long sleeves and a soft room with no corners or sharp things
He's suffering from cyber psychosis...
Fuck this shit, dude.
Haven't even read the post, but I assume it's this:
Lol, wasn't that pretty much how it went with that story from a Google employee who claimed their AI was sentient?
It's how it goes pretty much every time someone claims any LLM is sentient.
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Kent overstreet?
Of all people?
It seems like he didn't get enough harrasment from linux maintainers and went for AI one. Poor developer...
Man, what's up with Linux filesystem developers?
At least there's no murders this time around... I'll take it.
What???
Look up Hans Reiser, the creator of ReiserFS.
So is this the death of Bachefs.
You try to develop a Linux filesystem and see what that does to your mental stability. The interactions on the Linux Kernel Mailing List alone are enough to push most people off the deep end.
To definitively say whether something is or isn't conscious we'd first need to have a clear definition of what we mean by consciousness in functional terms. So far, there are a number of competing theories, and the definition will vary based on which theory you subscribe to. I'm personally a fan of the higher order theory of consciousness which suggests that conscious experience constitutes higher order thoughts which observe other thoughts, awareness of your own thoughts is the self referential property that would be a plausible explanation. To show that a model was conscious in this framework, you'd have to show that there are secondary patterns that occur in response to the primary patters which are a result of a stimulus.
The "best engineer in the world" said that it "is fully conscious according to any test I can think of", which of course means that it is conscious for all possible tests, and so it is unnecessary to look at any particular test or definition of consciousness
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No need for intelligence, it just needs to make money ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ)
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I thought horny chatbots were their latest business model?
Yep, just like how the random word generator in TempleOS was the word of God.
That guy actually was an insanely talented engineer though just suffered from some serious mental illnesses.
The same applies to this guy. His work is quite impressive, but his antisocial tendencies got him booted from working in the kernel. And now he’s gone down this path.
Hopefully things level out before we see a templeOS level mental health crisis situation.
Absolutely. Filesystem's are no joke. He's incredibly talented.
It makes me sad to the open source community being so ruthless.
Good call to take it out of the kernel....
As a nerd I think we need to get back to bullying nerds
This is actually a big step up from ReiserFS ...
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The ELIZA effect claims another victim.
Maybe he needs to think of better tests then lmao
Sheesh, did he play around with ketamine too? "We have full AGI". OK dude.
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