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  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Prompt [SMBC]
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    3 days ago

    Hell, my interpretation of the “derivative works” clause of GPL stipulates that all llm and genai products should also be gpl.

    …an interpretation broad enough to cover that would also mean that anyone who has ever seen GPL code before would only ever be able to write GPL code ever again. The idea of which I imagine would give Richard Stallman an erection you could see from space,







  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•The lookup table
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    1 month ago

    …but does the system that is the Chinese Room (the entire system taken as a whole) understand Chinese?

    Any given sufficiently small piece of your brain does not understand English, does no individual neuron in the language center of your brain understanding English mean that you do not understand English? If that understanding is held in the organization and structure of the brain but not in the individual parts, then why can’t the Chinese Room understand Chinese despite no individual component understanding Chinese? That’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer in a coherent fashion without asserting that knowledge in an organic brain is magical in some fashion, and nothing else counts.

    Wait until you consider the concept of philosophical zombies, which is all about pointing out the edges and contours of the hard problem of consciousness. The starting point of that discussion is essentially “Is someone who responds exactly like a regular person would but has no actual subjective experience conscious?” and gets stranger from there.