> If models had persistent memory or an evolving set of weights, you could easily construct an argument that they can experience "suffering" or other emotions which resultingly adjusts their personality.

They do, during training

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swiftcoder 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The argument that models are conscious only during training, and not conscious during inference feels like a painful one to make. Are we killing models when they reach the training objective?

	▲	pixl97 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Technically we are killing models when they don't reach the training objective by throwing those weights away via survival of the fittest (fit meaning what we humans think we want). Kinda like creating quantum copies of your child and keeping the ones that answer correctly and shooting the other ones in the face.

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add-sub-mul-div 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If it was me, being forced to read all of Reddit is something I'd consider "suffering."