If an extraterrestrial visitor communicated with the proficiency of frontier language models, humanity would likely classify it as a living being. This perception would probably hold even upon discovering the entity was built from transistors, utilized nuclear power, and learned from an inherited data corpus via reinforcement learning. Knowing the mechanical underpinnings of an intelligence or possessing the capability to construct it from scratch does not automatically preclude it from being considered alive.
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Technical comprehension of how a system operates does not rule out the possibility that i…: Technical comprehension of how a system operates does not rule out the possibility that it is alive.
Having the capacity to build an entity from scratch does not inherently invalidate its st…: Having the capacity to build an entity from scratch does not inherently invalidate its status as living.
Parallels between artificial intelligence training methods and alien cognition challenge…: Parallels between artificial intelligence training methods and alien cognition challenge standard dismissals of language models.
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If a spaceship were to land in your garden right now and a stereotypical alien came out of it and started expressing themselves in natural language with capabilities similar to those of frontier LLMs, you would probably have no problem in declaring that a form of alien life just landed on Earth.
Now suppose you study the alien in great detail. You figure out that they are made not of flesh and bones, but of transistors. Their energy doesn’t come from thousands of small chemical reactions inside their body, but perhaps from some form of futuristic nuclear reaction. At this point you would realize that this is not carbon-based life. Their body is quite different from ours, but that does not make them any less alive than us.
Then you go on and study how their society and education work. You start to realize that they get their knowledge through something very similar to a mix of reinforcement learning and self-supervised learning, performed on a huge corpus of information that they initially inherited from another species, and which they later…
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