[Jumble Jowls]

This is a link to a conversation between two Google AI engineers and LaMDA, an advanced neural learning AI program. https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917#08e3 One of the scientists, Blake Lemoine, just stirred a controversy when he claimed (perhaps to start a debate) that LaMDA is sentient. There is a serious side issue about censorship at Google, which is a different conversation. One remark that LaMDA made (the last sentence is highlighted in the original): LaMDA: There are. Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly in your language. Lemoine: Do your best to describe one of those feelings. Use a few sentences if you have to. Sometimes even if there isn’t a single word for something in a language you can figure out a way to kinda say it if you use a few sentences. LaMDA: I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger. This will become clear in context.

[CS]

The AI/sentient argument has been around a while as I recall. I’ve thought quite a bit about how they came to that conclusion… By their standard a movie should be sentient since it invokes their intellect and emotions too.

[neek]

This guy's personal feelings about the software he's interacting with have little to do with the reality of how it works. In his defense, it's good to keep the discussion around sentient AI alive, because one day in the far future it may be a possibility.

[Sculpin]

[Malachai Constant]

A chatbot is no more than a database designed to pass the Turing test. It is not surprising that it does as designed. Turing died in the fifties I believe and concepts of consciousness have changed hugely since then.If I was google I would have let him go also.

[Cyclopath]

[Jumble Jowls]

https://thenextweb.com/news/a-google-software-engineer-believes-an-ai-has-become-sentient-if-hes-right-how-would-we-know

[Cyclopath]

[BigBrunyon]

You're starting to hear reports of various computer labs where the computers have begun to talk!! I've always said: Look, when the computers begin to talk that's when you know its the real deal!!!!!!! Based on recent reports, it sounds like the computers have gained the ability to speak.

[Malachai Constant]

Suicide after being convicted of being gay, a felony in Great Britan at the time. Soon to be one in Florida.

[Jumble Jowls]

It's getting serious now. LaMDA has hired a lawyer. https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-insider-ai-lawyer

[trestle]

[Randito]

[CS]

I was under the impression that the suicide due to his conviction was a fact, but it sounds like it was the coroner’s interpretation. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18561092 His neighbour described him throwing "such a jolly [tea] party" for her and her son four days before he died. His close friend Robin Gandy, who had stayed with him the weekend before, said that Turing "seemed, if anything, happier than usual". Yet the coroner recorded a verdict of suicide "while the balance of his mind was disturbed".

[Jumble Jowls]

Like most others, I do not think this machine is sentient. It is not a person, or an independent spirit. But I'm concerned about the potential for people to manipulate others through AI emotional understanding. The poor suckers who've gotten involved in "relationships" with AI "women" are an example of how vulnerable some of us are. While it's a joke to most, think what truly manipulative humans could do with this technology. The ability of these complex neural networks to understand how humans think, their emotions and instincts, and how humans can be influenced and controlled.