Note that the usage of these terms and demand for rigor varies by orders of magnitude based on who you’re talking with and what aspects of “belief” are salient to the question at hand. My friends and coworkers don’t bat an eye at “Claude believes that Paris is the capital of France”, or even “Claude thinks it’s wasteful to spend money on 3p antivirus software”.
Only when considering whether a given AI instance is a moral actor or moral patient does the ambiguity matter, and then we’re really best off tabooing these words that imply high similarity to the way humans experience things.
Note that the usage of these terms and demand for rigor varies by orders of magnitude based on who you’re talking with and what aspects of “belief” are salient to the question at hand. My friends and coworkers don’t bat an eye at “Claude believes that Paris is the capital of France”, or even “Claude thinks it’s wasteful to spend money on 3p antivirus software”.
Only when considering whether a given AI instance is a moral actor or moral patient does the ambiguity matter, and then we’re really best off tabooing these words that imply high similarity to the way humans experience things.