I've mentuoned this before, but all this talk surrounding AI and plagiarism raises interesting questions about consciousness itself. All of the "creative" ideas I've ever had were inspired by my personal experiences. Just because I'm not consciously aware of how this process works, does that really make it all that different from the process of training an AI?
I honestly don't know.
I honestly don't know.
silverwizard
•We are conscious and our minds create ideas, those might be inspired, might be ex nilho, might be something else
The creative drive in humans might be a group of aliens posting thoughts in our heads! It might be random neural nets firing! It might be anything!
But for AI we know that's not the case, the answer is not at question
Jonathan Lamothe
I remember back in the 90s when I was experimenting with composing music in Impulse Tracker. Every time I thought I'd come up with something half way decent, I would realize that it was just kind of ripping some other song off.
I wasn't deliberately doing so, it was just my brain mashing stuff together in a process that was completely opaque to me. That said, I have very little musical talent, so perhaps that wasn't a fair test.
TL;DR: I'm not questioning whether or not a machine is sentient. I'm questioning whether or not I am.
silverwizard
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•Jonathan, you mentioned "plagiarism". That is what I was thinking of when I said "cheat". But are you talking about students who cheat by letting AI write their papers?
I guess AI already does stuff that would be considered cheating or plagiarism if a person did it.
Music may, or may not, be your thing, but your brain does not work like a computer. You are alive. There is a big difference.
I believe that people who do a lot of coding are more prone to believing in a parallel between thinking and coding. They may be mimicking computers more than the computers are mimicking them.