Machine Learning: Sentient or not?
Sentient ML? ChatGPT and the new Bing have been recently (early 2023) providing more and more "this feels real" moments. Or said differently, there are moments where the ML entity feels alive and sentient . What gives? Are these ML entities sentient? False(?) sensations As a vehicle driver, many of us are familiar with the surprising "false" relative sensations of movement. For example, we suddenly feel that the world coming toward us, more than us going forward. Or, we may be stopped, and for a moment the car feels like we are moving backwards, when in fact it is the other car lanes that are moving forwards. I put quotes around "False", as in fact, technically, there is nothing false about these sensations. These are in fact "projected" sensations: we are feeling what we would expect from a specific context, for example, from the relative view of our car. The world continues to function around us, and we choose the wrong reference context to ...