Comments by "Brent Jacobs" (@br3nto) on "Eliezer Yudkowsky: Is consciousness trapped inside GPT-4? | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips" video.

  1. I think to say we don’t know what is happening in the inner workings of AI models is underestimating what the AI experts understand. I think they could very precisely tell us what is happening. It’s not a big mystery this guy is making it out to be.
    3
  2. In the green potato example before 17:07, surely it’s response is still just predictive text… it’s not choosing to give those responses, rather it’s model is dictating the response. It’s a static deterministic response.
    2
  3. How do you that humans don’t just spew back the things they’ve absorbed? At what point is a human sentient?
    1
  4. “They can play chess. How can they do that without reasoning”. Chess is deterministic. It doesn’t need reasoning. If anything, an AI chess game would be boring because it doesn’t need to consider the moves of the other player, it just applies the winning strategy for the current board setup.
    1
  5.  @topchoicerollzroyce1181  yeah dude, that’s why I’m saying what I’m saying.
    1