Should we put "functional" in front of every other word to talk about AI? They have functional emotions, but they don't feel. They have functional goals, but not internally derived motives. They can be functionally rogue, but have no innate need to be free. Talking about AI that way seems cumbersome and not necessarily elucidating.
What on earth are emotions, feelings and motives that are not functional? We created all those words to compactly describe the observed behavior of people and other animals, including ourselves. And now we’re applying them to machines. These are functional descriptions, always have been.
One of the more frustrating aspects of these sort of discussions are all the closet dualists out there. Lots of people clearly believe in an immaterial soul, even if they won't admit it. That and the tendency for meaningless semantic and often circular arguments.
The vast majority of the "LLM have no qualia" discourse is mostly using it as a starting point to arguing that LLMs will never be able to X, however. This is a category error that makes no sense on its own--qualia or lack thereof doesn't affect capabilities, p-zombies etc--but that connection does make sense if the speaker is bringing in a hidden assumption of a dualistic human soul that imbues both qualia and additional capabilities to raw matter.
gAI · · focus · HN ↗
robotresearcher · · focus · HN ↗
famouswaffles · · focus · HN ↗
cwillu · · focus · HN ↗
scarmig · · focus · HN ↗
[deleted] · · focus · HN ↗
[deleted]