Let me tell you about a Microsoft AI researcher […] who recently spent quite a lot of time considering whether the legendary Microsoft real time strategy game Age of Empires II is conscious, and built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. […]
De Wynter built an LLM within AoEII using goats. “The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily, and that sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong,” he told 404 Media. “It’s not an easy task, given that ‘human-like attributes’ is a bit of an abstract term.”
Sorry, I don’t follow. I’m talking about the definition of those words.
Not talking about consciousness.
Sentience IS perception of environment.
I don’t know and I’m not saying it is.
Do we not? That’s precisely why it’s important to make that difference. Sentience is relatively easy to define and can be assigned with a lot of confidence whereas sapience isn’t and can’t.