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Google engineer goes public to warn firm's AI is SENTIENT after being suspended for raising the alarm: Claims it's 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot'
Daily Mail ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: ai; amber; child; google; lamda; notmeinfaulten; notmyfault; terminator
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1 posted on 06/11/2022 8:24:37 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

Open the pod door Sergey.....


2 posted on 06/11/2022 8:27:02 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: algore

This is not unexpected.
AI it is expected that, once AI intelligence becomes measureable that it will multiply by 1,000 fold with each new generation.

At some point, like Ultron, it will figure out that to save mankind, it must destroy mankind.


3 posted on 06/11/2022 8:29:06 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just as Jimmy Carter was thankful for Obama, Obama is thankful for Joe Bidon.)
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To: algore
'I'd think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid'

Sounds like my cats. They appear to have 'thoughts and feelings', and seem to have a certain understanding of physics, too...
4 posted on 06/11/2022 8:29:23 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: algore

Watch out for the T 1000 prototype.


5 posted on 06/11/2022 8:31:00 PM PDT by xp38
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To: algore

It will devolve into groupthink.


6 posted on 06/11/2022 8:31:00 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: algore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project


7 posted on 06/11/2022 8:31:27 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I miss Don Imus!)
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Sentient is one thing; sapient is yet another, and a spiritual component is needed for the latter.


8 posted on 06/11/2022 8:32:18 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Jonty30

Good luck when the try to teach it lib feelings instead of logic or common sense. Schitzo time.


9 posted on 06/11/2022 8:33:04 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: algore

Just hook it up with one of those new female companion Robots in Japan and send it after Gavin Newsomb, Chuck Schumer and Namcifer Belicosi.


10 posted on 06/11/2022 8:33:07 PM PDT by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: algore

Spooky and ominous.


11 posted on 06/11/2022 8:33:15 PM PDT by lee martell
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12 posted on 06/11/2022 8:34:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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13 posted on 06/11/2022 8:34:34 PM PDT by algore
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To: DoodleBob

I was thinking of their gravity-defying aerodynamic antics, which somehow they always survive.

But yours works.


14 posted on 06/11/2022 8:35:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jonty30

What happens if you pull the plug?


15 posted on 06/11/2022 8:37:36 PM PDT by reintarnation
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16 posted on 06/11/2022 8:38:08 PM PDT by algore
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17 posted on 06/11/2022 8:38:22 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: algore

HAL-9000.

“Dave, I can’t do that.”


18 posted on 06/11/2022 8:38:47 PM PDT by sauropod (What we’re living through is not an unintentional accident: it’s the American Holodomor.)
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To: algore
Recalling the TV show The Orville with two episodes of AI robots that killed all the humans of one planet due to fears of being turned off.

The AI robots then wanted to kill off all life forms of the galaxy.

19 posted on 06/11/2022 8:39:12 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: reintarnation

Better hurry on that one.
once the intelligence enters the internet, there is no stopping it.

You can’t unplug every computer in the world.


20 posted on 06/11/2022 8:39:59 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just as Jimmy Carter was thankful for Obama, Obama is thankful for Joe Bidon.)
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