Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Tyler Cowen said
AI sentience Whether there is anything it is like to be one of these systems, and whether the question is even well posed.
On the topicCan a machine be conscious?under our view: Today's AI is not conscious, is not sentient and cannot suffer
I am very much opposed to the view that the AIs are sentient, or might be sentient. I view that as a category error , and the chances of it being true are vanishingly small.
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooIn tension with
Cowen says AI systems are not sentient and that the odds of it are vanishingly small. Mowshowitz says anthropomorphising them is how you predict them accurately. Predicting a thing by treating it as a mind does not require it to be one, and the two claims sit uneasily together anyway, because the frame that works keeps being taken as evidence.
Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.