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  • Redacted@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlI bet God agrees.
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    14 hours ago

    As a massive fan of his older work, I was disappointed to see he has since turned his hand to creating transphobic jokes in his more recent material.

    Also find it a bit weird how he consistently proclaims how much he loves animals more than most humans.





  • Redacted@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAs a Brit. I see nothing wrong here
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    9 days ago

    Stops carving the Sunday roast and holds off putting the apple crumble in the oven…

    But we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world and have long since adopted everyone else’s cuisines.

    By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.









  • You don’t really have one lol. You’ve read too many pop-sci articles from AI proponents and haven’t understood any of the underlying tech.

    All your retorts boil down to copying my arguments because you seem to be incapable of original thought. Therefore it’s not surprising you believe neural networks are approaching sentience and consider imitation to be the same as intelligence.

    You seem to think there’s something mystical about neural networks but there is not, just layers of complexity that are difficult for humans to unpick.

    You argue like a religious zealot or Trump supporter because at this point it seems you don’t understand basic logic or how the scientific method works.



  • You obviously have hate issues

    Says the person who starts chucking out insults the second they get downvoted.

    From what I gather, anyone that disagrees with you is a tech bro with issues, which is quite pathetic to the point that it barely warrants a response but here goes…

    I think I understand your viewpoint. You like playing around with AI models and have bought into the hype so much that you’ve completely failed to consider their limitations.

    People do understand how they work; it’s clever mathematics. The tech is amazing and will no doubt bring numerous positive applications for humanity, but there’s no need to go around making outlandish claims like they understand or reason in the same way living beings do.

    You consider intelligence to be nothing more than parroting which is, quite frankly, dangerous thinking and says a lot about your reductionist worldview.

    You may redefine the word “understanding” and attribute it to an algorithm if you wish, but myself and others are allowed to disagree. No rigorous evidence currently exists that we can replicate any aspect of consciousness using a neural network alone.

    You say pessimistic, I say realistic.



  • Possible, yes. It’s also entirely possible there’s interactions we are yet to discover.

    I wouldn’t claim it’s unknowable. Just that there’s little evidence so far to suggest any form of sentience could arise from current machine learning models.

    That hypothesis is not verifiable at present as we don’t know the ins and outs of how consciousness arises.

    Then it would logically follow that all the other functions of a human brain are similarly “possible” if we train it right and add enough computing power and memory. Without ever knowing the secrets of the human brain. I’d expect the truth somewhere in the middle of those two perspectives.

    Lots of things are possible, we use the scientific method to test them not speculative logical arguments.

    Functions of the brain

    These would need to be defined.

    But that means it should also be reproducible by similar means.

    Can’t be sure of this… For example, what if quantum interactions are involved in brain activity? How does the grey matter in the brain affect the functioning of neurons? How do the heart/gut affect things? Do cells which aren’t neurons provide any input? Does some aspect of consciousness arise from the very material the brain is made of?

    As far as I know all the above are open questions and I’m sure there are many more. But the point is we can’t suggest there is actually rudimentary consciousness in neural networks until we have pinned it down in living things first.