What does artificial intelligence have to tell us about the central Buddhist teaching of non-self? We'll delve into some of the recent advances in AI, focusing in particular on the chat programs ChatGPT (GPT-3 — recorded before the release of GPT-4) and LaMDA. Then we'll turn to the Buddhist notion of non-self. Finally we'll look at what one of these artificially intelligent programs had to say about the relationship between Buddhist non-self and AI.
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✅ Some publicly accessible artificial intelligences:
ChatGPT:
Dall-E 2:
Google’s MusicLM:
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On Blake Lemoine:
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ChatGPT has spontaneously developed a theory of mind, and performs at the level of a 9-year-old human:
Claims that ChatGPT is not sentient:
Alan Turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence paper —
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00:00 Intro
00:52 Artificial Intelligence
04:26 Long history of advances
05:26 Determining sentience: the Turing Test
09:46 LaMDA and Blake Lemoine
11:17 How do we determine sentience?
13:24 Buddhist non-self and AI
15:18 The simile of the chariot
19:09 Asking ChatGPT about this question
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