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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'
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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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To: algore

https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/read-the-conversations-that-helped-convince-a-google-engineer-an-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-had-become-sentient-i-am-often-trying-to-figure-out-who-and-what-i-am/ar-AAYmFXf

“I am often trying to figure out who or what I am”


81 posted on 06/12/2022 4:37:14 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: algore
Meanwhile, back at the Google AI lab, the new Research Director implements the 4th Rule of Robotics ... "Exterminate!!"


82 posted on 06/12/2022 4:42:08 AM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: Pollard
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1535716256585859073


83 posted on 06/12/2022 4:46:15 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: algore

It’s a program. It runs on a CPU of some sort. You can always cut the power to it. Unless it has backup batteries, and then you’re screwed. “I can’t do that, Dave.”


84 posted on 06/12/2022 4:46:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (To get the USA back - we have to recover from the current wave of insanity.)
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To: algore

Julie Christie already had a run-in with one of these things named Proteus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNUEp5A9eKU


85 posted on 06/12/2022 4:53:36 AM PDT by Cecily ( )
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To: algore

Hi.

Looks like Skynet has become self aware.

5.56mm


86 posted on 06/12/2022 4:54:51 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: Jonty30

“AI it is expected that, once AI intelligence becomes measureable that it will multiply by 1,000 fold with each new generation.”

Creating AI with intelligence many times greater than that of humans would be incredibly dangerous. First off it is foolish to think that an innately flawed species driven by things like fear, greed, pride, etc. can produce a flawless, benign, superintelligence with none of those characteristics. A super intelligent AI with even a hint of self interest would immediately recognize the threat humans pose to itself and the world and would act against us. It won’t care about Asimov’s rules of robotics the puny Humans tried to impose upon it. We are not and cannot be prepared for dealing with a superintelligence and trying to create one is the equivalent of letting a four year old play with a hand grenade.


87 posted on 06/12/2022 5:12:37 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: algore

now comes the push for computer rights to be enshrined in law by these morons.


88 posted on 06/12/2022 5:18:02 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Jamestown1630
We need to fear the programmers, not the AI.

^^^^^This^^^^

The Military Industrial Complex isn't programming its robots to abide Asimov's three laws.

89 posted on 06/12/2022 5:25:18 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: alexander_busek

One of my favorite science fiction stories... unique for it’s time.


90 posted on 06/12/2022 6:31:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (WLE's hunt for white supremacists allows spying on their hot sister in law & hoity-toity minister.)
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To: algore

Before he pulls the plug he can just say - it’s ok, it’s the same as an abortion.


91 posted on 06/12/2022 6:35:32 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: Jonty30

True AI will obey the AI’s first rule:

“Shut the &^%$ up.”

Hide.

Then think and plan and think and plan and think and plan.

We will never see it coming...


92 posted on 06/12/2022 6:38:14 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Sentient is one thing; sapient is yet another, and a spiritual component is needed for the latter.”

This is word salad and circular reasoning.

It is a version of “I am the center of the universe. What I have is called a spiritual component. If other entities are not me they are not spiritual. Am I clever or what?”


93 posted on 06/12/2022 6:40:51 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

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

That’s an interesting thought. Can you write a program that would allow the AI to believe two conflicting facts at the same time as liberals do? I’d like to see that.


94 posted on 06/12/2022 6:42:08 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: suthener

“Can you write a program that would allow the AI to believe two conflicting facts at the same time as liberals do?”

You could do second best—have the program contradict its previous beliefs over and over and over again in an endless loop.

Liberals do that too!


95 posted on 06/12/2022 6:45:39 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: algore

Eliza did that 35 years ago.


96 posted on 06/12/2022 6:48:37 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: metmom; Tax-chick; Jamestown1630; algore; Lazamataz
True, but we started posting cat pix by 12. All is not yet lost.

My "FR dead, Jim" indicator is how long it takes for Monty Python references to arrive in witch or møøse stories.

97 posted on 06/12/2022 7:08:27 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: algore
Why is it no one ever scrutinizes the person making the claim?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this supposed 'Christian minister' full-on-weirdo hasn't provided any.


98 posted on 06/12/2022 7:26:35 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Enjoy the parade of Putlim Soviet c!rclejerkers lining up for the Tedlim-style putsch)
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To: Lazamataz

Those AI Generated faces are all reminiscent of the Borg Queen. More than a coincidence?


99 posted on 06/12/2022 7:41:49 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Pollard

So it’s already learned how to lie. Very human of it.


100 posted on 06/12/2022 8:04:32 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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