April 22nd-28th 2023 Ukraine’s game plan
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What if Mr Agüera y Arcas is right, though, and that which science deems lifeless is, in some cryptic, par tial and emergent way, effectively animate? Then it will be time to do for AI some of what Freud thought he was doing for humans. Having realised that the con scious mind was not the whole show, Freud looked elsewhere for sources of desire that for good or ill drove behaviour. Very few people now subscribe to the specific Freudian explanations of human behaviour which followed. But the idea that there are reasons why people do things of which they are not conscious is part of the world’s mental furniture. The uncon scious is probably not a great model for whatever it is that provides LLM s with an apparent sense of meaning or an approximation of agency. But the sense that there might be something below the AI surface which needs understanding may prove powerful. Dr Bender and those who agree with her may take issue with such notions. But they might find that they lead to useful actions in the field of “ AI ethics”. Win kling out nonconscious biases acquired in the pre verbal infancy of training; dealing with the contradic tions behind hallucinations; regularising rogue de sires: ideas from psychotherapy might be seen as help ful analogies for dealing with the pseudocognitive AI transition even by those who reject all notion of an AI mind. A concentration on the relationship between parents, or programmers, and their children could be welcome, too. What is it to bring up an AI well? What sort of upbringing should be forbidden? To what ex tent should the creators of AI s be held responsible for the harms done by their creation? And human desires may need some inspection, too. Why are so many people eager for the sort of inti macy an LLM might provide? Why do many influential humans seem to think that, because evolution shows species can go extinct, theirs is quite likely to do so at its own hand, or that of its successor? And where is the determination to turn a superhuman rationality into something which does not merely stir up the econ omy, but changes history for the better? n There might be something below the AI surface which needs understanding 012 |