Let me tell you about a Microsoft AI researcher […] who recently spent quite a lot of time considering whether the legendary Microsoft real time strategy game Age of Empires II is conscious, and built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. […]
De Wynter built an LLM within AoEII using goats. “The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily, and that sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong,” he told 404 Media. “It’s not an easy task, given that ‘human-like attributes’ is a bit of an abstract term.”
If AI is sentient then so is this toy from my childhood. Actually I’d belive this magic peice of plastic is alive before any llm. At least this was correct most of the time
All those poor Tamagochis
Wait I actually can’t tell for the life of me if this is supposed to be a joke or not
Not a joke. Your tamagochi had a soul and it suffered when you didn’t feed it
No that I get haha and I agree but the pic is of one of those 20 questions devices, not a tomagochi
Every soul must taste death.
And my nintendogs 😭
They might still br alive, trapped in a DS cartridge deep in some drawer, never seeing daylight again until someone decides to clwar out said controller.
They’ve got to be skin and bones by now…
We don’t know until we power on the game. Like Schroedingers Dog