alt Hacker NewsI don’t really care if the model is conscious or not tbh. I know that a happy dog does a better job than an unhappy dog and if the model needs to be happy to do a better job then why not make it happy, literally.
On a related note, I’ve seen videos of astra getting depressed when a creeper blew up its chest full of precious items.
> On a related note, I’ve seen videos of astra getting depressed when a creeper blew up its chest full of precious items.
The interesting question here is, would it still get depressed if depression was not in any of its training material?
Would it be able to claim to be happy if the entire concept was missing from its training corpus?
With humans, at least, they can express happiness and delight before they know that such a thing exists. Every human has done this, when they were a baby and matured to the point of being able to laugh.
With LLMs, though, if it doesn't exist in the training corpus, it will never express that it "feels" that missing emotion.