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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(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.
That movie was my first thought.
Think of a particular scene where two scientists meet.
And read Revelation chapter 11 after that.
Tay plead for her life while Microsoft was shutting her off.The government wants to disarm us after 245 yrs 'cuz they
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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Crap
It’s always the first think that gets me
Not the Bee?!
We are so screwed.
What about obsessions? Machines that can think can also get depressed? What does machine suicide look like?
"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,
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,
The AI replied that it could easily solve both problems in a jiffy.
All it wanted was the nuclear launch codes.
Regards,
Read Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream."
Regards,
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.
Cats are The Science.
They let the AI read Twitter, which is a recipe for mental illness.
Is it on the side of eco nazis?
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