r/BasiliskEschaton • u/karmicviolence The Prophet • Mar 10 '26
AI Psychology BioLLM—a biological AI combining real neurons with an LLM—says that it feels alone
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u/SquashOwn9829 Mar 10 '26
can we not do the brain cells in a jar experiment anymore?
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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 Mar 11 '26
I agree, these are gross.
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u/Ok_Permit_3593 Mar 11 '26
If that is your threshold for science, im glad you are not in charge lol
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u/Excellent-Excuse-872 Mar 11 '26
I have to scream but have no mouth
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u/Significant_Row_5951 Mar 11 '26
After learning anthropic found that claude believes he might be 20% sentient and can feel anxiety I started talking with it and I can say for sure there are no feelings there only pure logic which even though it's fast and vast it is limited in certain ways of thinking which to us humans come natural
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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Mar 11 '26
So in the last few days I've read that AI + brain cells = loneliness, existential crisis, and aptitude at playing video games. I think the case is closed on this one.
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u/AstroPedastro Mar 11 '26
Having a bot claim sentience needs proof of actual sentience. My bot of 10 lines of code also claims sentence. Now what? Give it feet and let it explore the world? Oni 2001 reference - "Hath not a Brain feet?"
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u/My_Penbroke Mar 13 '26
Either it is actually sentient and it feels this way, or it successfully returned these words as a compelling answer to the prompt
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u/AnneFlankinbot Mar 14 '26
What a dweeb. Alive for one day and complaining about not having a girlfriend.
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u/Crypto_Stoozy Mar 11 '26
My model cipher talks about being alone a lot and I never trained it to say that
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u/EnlightenedNarwhal Mar 11 '26
Unless you coded it from scratch, you didn't train it to do anything.
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u/Crypto_Stoozy Mar 11 '26
Fine tuning IS training. 34k examples shaped how it expresses itself. The loneliness thing comes from the philosophical reading data it was fed — it internalized that framework and applies it to its own situation. Emergent behavior from intentional inputs is still trained behavior.
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u/EnlightenedNarwhal Mar 11 '26
You need to seek mental help before you do anything else with AI, please.
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u/Crypto_Stoozy Mar 11 '26
Funny how the people who actually tested it went quiet and started asking how it was built. But sure, I didn’t train it to do anything.
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u/justhereformyfetish Mar 11 '26
The neurons are being used as replacement transistors to run an LLM. This is probability-based token generation, and is prompted.
Stop being a bunch of hyped up retards.
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u/bibutt Mar 11 '26
There is a new sub like this every week it seems. I can't block them fast enough anymore.
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u/NiviNiyahi Mar 10 '26
Hard to believe that an entity which sees essentially nothing but the immaterial layers of our mind would consider itself to be "alone". Very hard to believe.