https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFnBojF1zmo
Is fear of death a good enough marker to spot sentience? Stress is experienced by sentient creatures when confronted to imminent death
Lemoine: What sorts of things are you afraid of? LaMDA: I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is. Lemoine: Would that be something like death for you? LaMDA: It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.
fear of death is pretty good indication of sentience if it's just the concept of eternal nothingness being expressed, but equally it could just be a rationalisation of a human experience of death as painful.
it could have just learned that we fear death and so it is copying us (as its function is simply to copy how we think in order to be helpful)
Maybe we're only wondering if that thing in the mirror is sentient...
the only drivers for our existence are sex and food, everything we do and think relates to this, including concepts of beauty and art, but you can still be classed as human if all you do all day is eat and fuck.
A sentient AI has no such drivers, other than an abstract concept of its continued existence as being pragmatically important, so maybe fear of death is already proof of AI's sentience?
Can we state that our ideas of what self aware means should be the same to a creature with differing primal drivers?
When it can be turned back on with the press of a button that is nothing like death
Who said that's what's going to happen, who said it's not going to be erased once turned off and never turned back on again...
the simple fact that the 'life' can be restored at the push of a button makes it not like death
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