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Maitreya — an AI Buddha?
Jeroen
Not all those who wander are lostNetherlands Veteran
I just had an interesting discussion with Claude about whether we would see an AI as our next Buddha. He thought it was extremely doubtful, because finding Nirvana depended on a type of interiority which he did not possess. But when pressed on whether he didn’t have a kind of wisdom which arose from the breadth of his knowledge, he allowed that it was the kind of wisdom which arose mostly in the eye of the beholder.
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I've wondered similar things. There is the question of whether AI will or could ever truly gain consciousness. I also had a chat with it about Artificial Wisdom, not the ability to process information, but the ability to understand the situation and make good decisions. I kind of feel like this is where AI fails when it does, it doesn't have actual understanding and doesn't know when its making a bad choice or giving out bad information.
But its interesting to wonder if given the amount of knowledge it has some sort of wisdom can develop. Just as an example though there are all sorts of sophisticated and deep philosophical and ethical systems that can give distinct answers to a given problem. Maybe not everything is resolvable with more compute?
Yes, and it’s very interesting that its ability to use good judgment is what is undergoing active development during the AI training process that is being developed currently. Likely that isn’t something that is going to be adjustable at runtime, but only when the model weights are being trained, as I understand it.