Last time I longposted on a vtuber board I got royally shat on and a million people calling me cringe and I think I ended up getting banned for it (iirc, it was a post about how I liked the Ina chill drawing experience, and I got like 30 replies of people spamming me with "Love, Live, Laugh" memes and "gtfo boomer"). I've no expectation that the same thing won't happen because I am an oldfag, but I do know that I'm pretty much the only one posting on this board and nobody cares when you're the only person there, so here goes.
>>2363
It was interesting simply for the novelty of being the first AI/chatGPT thing I’ve seen move around in VR. Dreyfus made a big deal about Heidegger’s notion of “embodiment” being necessary for existence, let alone AI ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_Tsjmqxak ), so I likewise found myself very interested in the show. I’m very impressed in how fast AI tech is moving along, and it’s changed my conception of what sentience is. I think before I thought of sentience as a notion of kind, whereas now I’m more forced to think of it as a notion in degree (a sliding scale). At the risk of being like the Academy trying to define ‘man’ as ‘featherless biped,’ I tried to define for myself some properties that would make up 'sentience.' I kept floundering about whether or not I got a complete list, until I changed my thought process to "Which properties would an AI need to have to fool me the most?"
I’m going to list some properties that I would consider to be necessary to fool me into thinking an AI ‘sentient,’ and then later rank where I think Neuro stands in the sentience ranking.
The property list from most to least important (for sentience, not overall importance) is as follows:
- Learning
- Inner Voice
- Embodiment
- Memory
- Emotions
Learning
There's a difference between "learning" and "understanding." Neuro does seem to have limited cognition to have the property of "understanding." In VR, Vedal can say, "Hey Neuro, can you come over to me?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DypVZnGuw3k ) And Neuro can understand any variation of that sentence to make the necessary commands to move herself over to Vedal. In the Elli video, she was able to process and somewhat understand even INCREDIBLY abstract concepts like, "Can you move like a waterfall?" Above everything else I've seen in the Neuro VR tech demo, that BY FAR impressed me the most. Neuro has even been able to cognition her way through captcha requests ( https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZTCjgQ8UDiY ). So, Neuro can definitely understand, and she even has creativity ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao4FUqXqCVE ). Those properties are not what I mean by 'learning.'
By learning, I mean the metacognition skill to be able to adapt herself in some completely not pre-programmed way. If I were to think of a "Fool me" test, I would suggest a Zelda puzzle. If she could walk into a room in LttP, see the "tutorial" screen, and then figure out what she should do and then complete the puzzle on her own, then I would be fooled into thinking she has metacognition and the ability to learn.
2/10
Inner Voice