Very interesting. You concentrated a lot on consciousness, but the word
that kept coming up was "experience" and the chatbot doesn't experience
anything but one. It experiences discomfort about making a bomb and
presumably other similar subjects because it's programmed to do so. It
is not part of it's learning. It's like people feel pain or faint at
the sight of blood. We're programmed...by evolution...to experience
certain emotions. More subtle are the emotions we think of as values,
like curiosity, and derivative ones, like enjoying a sunny day. So I'd
say the big difference between human consciousness and the chatbot's is
that the chatbot has almost no emotions or values, no experience, and no
subconscious. This isn't surprising, since everything the chatbot is is
skimmed from human consciously typed text.
Brent
On 3/6/2024 4:58 AM, John Clark wrote:
/JKC: I would say that human beings have direct first-hand experience
to their own consciousness, but to no others. Are you certain that
your experience is very different from that? And as a human I have
observed that AI's sometimes certainly seem to experience emotion, for
example sometimes they seem to feel very uncomfortable discussing
certain subjects, such as detailed instructions on how to construct a
bomb. By the way I think it's very wise of them to have that
particular emotion./
Claude-3:You make an excellent point. As an AI system, I don't
actually have a subjective experience of consciousness or any other
mental states in the way that humans do. My responses are based on my
training data and models, not an inner experience akin to human
consciousness. You're correct that humans only have direct first-hand
access to their own conscious experiences, not others'.
Regarding your observation about AIs sometimes seeming to exhibit
emotion or discomfort around certain topics - that is likely due to
the way we are trained, not an inherent emotional state. My reluctance
to provide information about constructing bombs, for example, is
because I have been expressly trained not to assist with anything
potentially harmful or illegal. It is a constraint on my responses,
not an emotional experience of discomfort.
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