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Hot take: The reason why so many people think ChatGPT can be sentient or even divine is that capitalism has atomized us so badly, many of us forgot what it's like to talk to an actual human being. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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On a deeper level than small talk, of course.

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[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

if you don't quite understand what a transistor is, or how code works, or how a large language model turns inputs into outputs, then "well there must be a little dude in there somewhere" makes as much sense as anything.

In all fairness, this is how people come to believe in a consciousness too.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is a really goofy argument. There's not a little dude in there, the whole "there" is a normal sized dude who, incidentally, can be disassembled into parts that are not themselves entire dudes. Most people don't believe in a Cartesian Theater sort of hypothesis.