{"id":143563,"date":"2022-08-04T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/gpt-3-ai-successfully-mimics-philosopher-daniel-dennett"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:02:19","slug":"gpt-3-ai-successfully-mimics-philosopher-daniel-dennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/gpt-3-ai-successfully-mimics-philosopher-daniel-dennett","title":{"rendered":"GPT-3 AI Successfully Mimics Philosopher Daniel Dennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gpt-3-ai-successfully-mimics-philosopher-daniel-dennett.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>AI Philosophy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The AI model was trained using answers from Dennett on a range of questions about free will, whether animals feel pain and even favorite bits of other philosophers. The researchers then asked different groups of people to compare the AI\u2019s responses and Dennett\u2019s real answers and see if they could tell them apart. They used responses from 302 random people online who followed a link from Schwitzgebel\u2019s blog, 98 confirmed college graduates from the online research platform Prolific, and 25 noted Dennett experts. Immersion in Dennett\u2019s philosophy and work didn\u2019t prevent anyone from struggling to identify the source of the answers, however.<\/p>\n<p>The research platform participants only managed an average success rate of 1.2 out of 5 questions. The blog readers and experts answered ten questions, with the readers hitting an average score of 4.8 out of 10. That said, not a single Dennett expert was 100% correct, with only one answering nine correctly and an average of 5.1 out of 10, barely higher than the blog readers. Interestingly, the question whose responses most confused the Dennett experts was actually about AI sentience, specifically if people could \u201cever build a robot that has beliefs?\u201d Despite the impressive performance by the GPT-3 version of Dennett, the point of the experiment wasn\u2019t to demonstrate that the AI is self-aware, only that it can mimic a real person to an increasingly sophisticated degree and that OpenAI and its rivals are continuing to refine the models so that similar quizzes will likely get harder to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Philosophy The AI model was trained using answers from Dennett on a range of questions about free will, whether animals feel pain and even favorite bits of other philosophers. The researchers then asked different groups of people to compare the AI\u2019s responses and Dennett\u2019s real answers and see if they could tell them apart. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}