By the way, this also means if you could download a mind to a computer - it would slowly lose it’s humanity as it lived longer and longer interfacing with computer systems rather than human systems/organs/experiencs.
Eventually that “uploaded human” would become a Clankr, and stop understanding human life, the will to survive/think. Eventually it would just compute (not think/care or have flaws).
Many sci-fi stories are based on the man-to-technology-to-cold-rational-evil pipeline… Less have gone in the other direction, even though it often produces very popular characters: Spock, Data, the Terminator, Pinnoccio.
Nah, I don’t think so. We’re getting into philosophical / religious territory here, but from a technical standpoint I believe there is no difference between a brain and an accurate simulation of a brain, and an accurate simulation of a brain is “just” an engineering challenge at this point. We might now have the computing power or architecture yet, but there is no conceptual issue prohibiting us from building it.
But an LLM is not a simulation of a brain. It is an autocomplete on steroids. Very different architecture. It is not a brain, but it can sometimes produce the same outputs a brain would. But it is nowhere close to a human brain.
By the way, this also means if you could download a mind to a computer - it would slowly lose it’s humanity as it lived longer and longer interfacing with computer systems rather than human systems/organs/experiencs.
Eventually that “uploaded human” would become a Clankr, and stop understanding human life, the will to survive/think. Eventually it would just compute (not think/care or have flaws).
Many sci-fi stories are based on the man-to-technology-to-cold-rational-evil pipeline… Less have gone in the other direction, even though it often produces very popular characters: Spock, Data, the Terminator, Pinnoccio.
Nah, I don’t think so. We’re getting into philosophical / religious territory here, but from a technical standpoint I believe there is no difference between a brain and an accurate simulation of a brain, and an accurate simulation of a brain is “just” an engineering challenge at this point. We might now have the computing power or architecture yet, but there is no conceptual issue prohibiting us from building it.
But an LLM is not a simulation of a brain. It is an autocomplete on steroids. Very different architecture. It is not a brain, but it can sometimes produce the same outputs a brain would. But it is nowhere close to a human brain.