Lemoine, who is also ordained as a mystic Christian priest, told Wired he became convinced of LaMDA's status as a "person" because of its level of self-awareness, the way it spoke about its needs and its fear of death if Google were to delete it.
He insists he was not fooled by a clever robot, as some scientists have suggested. Lemoine maintains his position, and even appeared to suggest that Google had enslaved the AI system.
A Google engineer says AI has become sentient. What does that actually mean? (2022)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ai-consciousness-how-to-recognize-1.6498068
22 Comments
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 38 pts · 32d
Delusion happens.
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 32d
It is interesting - and scary - how shallow the roots of our common sense can be.
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
rollerbang@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Where's this from?
db2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Age of Ultron, at the end of the movie
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 32d
It means at least one Google engineer is full of shit.
stsquad@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 32d
Just an early example of AI psychosis
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 32d
I can't believe this was already four years ago. Not much of LLMs have seen the same level of improvements I find. Certainly has not, at least to me, shown any signs of sentience.
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 9 pts · 32d
The ELIZA effect was discovered in the 1960ies.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
Eliza was total crap, it took seconds to detect it was an incredibly obvious rearrangement of words you used yourself.
All it had was some superficial understanding of how a sentence is structured, it then used that to "respond" using your own words.
Eliza was freeware in the early 80's, and it was only interesting for 5 minutes tops. Of which the 4 minutes were used to make it say incredibly stupid things, because the patterns it used were so obvious.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 32d
All you downvoters and snide commenters have been whooshed. The whole point is that this bullshit has been peddled for years now and the public and CEOs still fall for it.
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 7 pts · 32d
The first sightings of such phenomens were called ELIZA effect. In 1966.
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 4 pts · 32d
This reminds me on the reports that some native American people thought that taking a photography of them would rob them of their soul.
Or that many things that doctors do today as a matter of routine would have left them being burned as a witch in earlier times.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 31d
Watch the whole interview that dude is an idiot and also extremely overly religious. To the point where I don't think he should be the authority on what is "sentient" and just straight up wishful thinking.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
Can it do things on its own whim without any human interaction? No? Then not sentient. Get over yourself and realize LLMs are hitting your internal Turing Test.
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 2 pts · 32d
Speaking of things that robots should do:
I have the feeling that people paying more attention to their addictive-by-design smartphone than to their baby might have really negative consequences.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 32d
From 2022 my dude...
aura McQuillan · CBC News · Posted: Jun 24, 2022 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: June 24, 2022
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 8 pts · 32d
Yeah, this is what the "(2022)" in the title was trying to tell you.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 32d
It doesn't mean anything when the claim was already thoroughly debunked 4 years ago...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/13/tech/google-ai-not-sentient/index.html
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 2 pts · 32d
The news isn't that AI obviously is not sentient.
The news is that even some relatively smart people can be induced to think it is.
nyan@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 32d
Relatively smart people believe boneheaded things all the time, and have done so throughout history. Extreme case: Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. "In his autobiography, Mullis professed a belief in astrology and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien."
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 32d
And already proven wrong, 4 years ago. This isn't a revelation.