• Captain_Pumpkinhead@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    If you ever wonder if the machine is sentient, ask it to write code for something somewhat obscure.

    I’m trying to run a Docker container in NixOS. NixOS is a Linux distro known for being super resilient (I break stuff a lot because I don’t know what in doing), and while it’s not some no-name distro, it’s also not that popular. GPT 4 Turbo has given me wrong answer after wrong answer and it’s infuriating. Bard too.

    If this thing was sentient, it’d be a lot better at this stuff. Or at least be able to say, “I don’t know, but I can help you figure it out”.

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      1 year ago

      I think this is a huge problem with current AIs is that they are forced to generate an output, particularly in a very strict time constraint. “I don’t know” should be a valid answer.

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        1 year ago

        Are we? Do we have free will or are our brains are just deterministic models with 100T parameters as mostly untrained synapses?

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        1 year ago

        I’m more talking about hallucinations. There’s a difference between “I’m not sure”, “I think it’s this but I’m confidently wrong”, and “I’m making up bullshit answers left and right”.