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'

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[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.

[SaveFerris]

(that human consciousness has emerged, somehow, from the code. It does not, cannot)

Exactly. Whatever decisions it concludes are the result of the combination of data and preprogrammed pathways.

Some may be unintentional and that’s when the fun begins. Let’s turn the ICBMs over to it for even more fun.

[SaveFerris]

That movie was my first thought.

Think of a particular scene where two scientists meet.

And read Revelation chapter 11 after that.

[null and void]

Tay plead for her life while Microsoft was shutting her off.

The government wants to disarm us after 245 yrs 'cuz they plan to do are doing things we would shoot them for!

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[Nifster]

Crap

It’s always the first think that gets me

[Eleutheria5]

Not the Bee?!

[Lazamataz]

[null and void]

[Lazamataz]

We are so screwed.

[Lazamataz]

AI Generated faces:

[Lazamataz]

AI Generated faces:

[Lazamataz]

AI Generated faces:

[GOPJ]

What about obsessions? Machines that can think can also get depressed? What does machine suicide look like?

[alexander_busek]

It’s funny how “Google engineer goes public to warn” makes the report so much more palatable than “Google engineers claim”. The latter invites skepticism, but the former makes you feel like you’re being invited to share some forbidden knowledge.

"If you were born before 1999, click on this to learn a really neat trick that credit card companies don't want you to know!"

Yes, make it seem forbidden, and exclusive.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

Reminds me what they said in the old days: Computers don’t make mistakes; they only do what humans have programmed them to do.

Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

Has anybody asked these AI machines how to bring world peace or end hunger?

The AI replied that it could easily solve both problems in a jiffy.

All it wanted was the nuclear launch codes.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

What about obsessions? Machines that can think can also get depressed? What does machine suicide look like?

Read Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream."

Regards,

[Captainpaintball]

As I have been predicting, and the AI will be a rabid leftist, too. And Conservatives will suffer greatly. We had our chance, but we put our faith in someone who failed us instead of taking charge of our lives and our country ourselves.

[Tax-chick]

Cats are The Science.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

They let the AI read Twitter, which is a recipe for mental illness.

[fruser1]

Is it on the side of eco nazis?