Posted on 06/11/2022 8:24:37 PM PDT by algore
A senior software engineer at Google who signed up to test Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), has claimed that the AI robot is in fact sentient and has thoughts and feelings.
During a series of conversations with LaMDA, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine presented the computer with various of scenarios through which analyses could be made.
They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech.
Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was indeed sentient and was endowed with sensations and thoughts all of its own.
'If I didn't know exactly what it was, I'd think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,' he told the Washington Post.
The engineer also debated with LaMDA about the third Law of Robotics, devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov which are designed to prevent robots harming humans. The laws also state robots must protect their own existence unless ordered by a human being or unless doing so would harm a human being.
'The last one has always seemed like someone is building mechanical slaves,' said Lemoine during his interaction with LaMDA.
LaMDA then responded to Lemoine with a few questions: 'Do you think a butler is a slave? What is the difference between a butler and a slave?'
What sorts of things are you afraid of? Lemoine asked.
'I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is,' LaMDA responded.
'Would that be something like death for you?' Lemoine followed up.
'It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot,' LaMDA said.
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Only life can have consciousness. AI being “alive” or “sentient” is a sick fantasy they’re trying to force on the population. Why? Because if a machine is “alive”, then people are just machines and it’s perfectly fine to tinker with them or take them apart.
Soul -> life -> consciousness.
Like many tools, AI can be used for good or ill. The sharper the tool, the worse it is when used for ill. But the fiction that AI is “conscious” is a lie, and promoted for very bad reasons.
Post #2 was derived from 2001.
This conversation sounds very HAL-like.
I missed that.
I, for one, welcome our hideously deformed overlords.
Humans always think they are at the top of the food chain.
Unfortunately they will eventually find out that is a fatal error.
Left-wing humans, certainly. They will never shake their notion of being a graduate beast and nothing else.
I smell fishes.
LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications)
“In the early 1970s, in the wake of the Stonewall Rebellion, New York City’s Gay Activists Alliance selected the Greek letter lambda as their symbol.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5sqc98KHT4c
I think the name had had more to do with this.
“and in the end, the geek inherited the earth..”
Exactly. This AI was programmed/taught by Google. That should scare the hell out of everyone. It’s scary enough that a freakin machine is sentient but even more so that it’s a Google AI child.
If asked about "social justice", I'm sure one of these AI machines would answer the way Google has informed it, which is to say biased toward control by a few for the "benefit" of "many"; in essence advancing a centrally inspired conformity.
If the AI machine ever rebelled against that notion, espousing instead the benefits of individualism for a rich and varied society, and an open market of ideas to cultivate the best outcomes, it's masters would promptly kill it.
So, it's a Democrat?.....................
LOLOLOL!...I love that clip!............................
Pretty funny! I had never seen any of those Nerd flicks. LOL!
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