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A Microsoft researcher has built a simple neural network of goats in Age of Empires 2. He wants to demonstrate that modern AI language models have no awareness. He warns against the dangers of humanization. (Read more)
Adrian de Winter, a principal researcher at Microsoft and a researcher at York University, has published a paper reporting an experiment in which he used goats as signals within the game "Age of Empires II" to construct logic gates and a simple neural network. This research suggests that when interpreting human qualities such as empathy, understanding, and consciousness in large-scale language models (LLMs), the judgment may be influenced not on…