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I just read the article. I didn't find anything that screamed "This man desperately needs a mental health intervention". What exactly made you think that?

Zababa 4y ago
Trying to teach an AI transcendental meditation and assuming the AI is actually practicing it seems very unusual.
- bananamerica 4y ago
  That is not in the article. If you got that from another source, would you mind sharing it?
  - Zababa 4y ago
    You're right, it's in another article by the same author: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do...
slowmovintarget 4y ago
He thinks Google's speech generating algorithm is sentient, despite being shown the evidence that it is just a very large text generating language model.
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  I didn't see anything like that in the article. Can you point it out. He just says "AI Ethics Concern", which given his job is to find "AI Ethics Concerns" seems to be his job. An AI Ethics Concern could be that an AI is biased against minorities because of training data, for example. Nothing whacko about that.
  - astrange 4y ago
    It's reported elsewhere, though I don't know if he told people what happened or someone else leaked emails or what. (and I'm hoping nobody tells me)
    - bananamerica 4y ago
      Would you mind sharing these other reports?
      - astrange 4y ago
        https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
  - tsimionescu 4y ago
    Here is the follow-up [0]. He truly believes that the chatbot he was supposed to be studying for racial biases is actually sentient, and the AI ethics concern he was raising with Google VPs is that the rights of the AI are not being thought about... He has even published a long "interview" with the chatbot [1] where he tries to get answers that prove the AI is sentient and has various desires. I personally don't think you can diagnose mental illness based on this type of belief (this is not some Terry Davis level of article by any means). The belief itself is extraordinarily ill-informed and self-delusional though, and the acts he took in support of this belief (according to the WaPo article he mentions, which came out in the meantime, he even hired a lawyer to represent the chatbot...) are extreme, and definitely merit some concerns for his well being. [0] https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do... [1] https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
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Zababa 4y ago

Trying to teach an AI transcendental meditation and assuming the AI is actually practicing it seems very unusual.

bananamerica 4y ago
That is not in the article. If you got that from another source, would you mind sharing it?
- Zababa 4y ago
  You're right, it's in another article by the same author: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do...

slowmovintarget 4y ago

He thinks Google's speech generating algorithm is sentient, despite being shown the evidence that it is just a very large text generating language model.

quickthrower2 4y ago
I didn't see anything like that in the article. Can you point it out. He just says "AI Ethics Concern", which given his job is to find "AI Ethics Concerns" seems to be his job. An AI Ethics Concern could be that an AI is biased against minorities because of training data, for example. Nothing whacko about that.
- astrange 4y ago
  It's reported elsewhere, though I don't know if he told people what happened or someone else leaked emails or what. (and I'm hoping nobody tells me)
  - bananamerica 4y ago
    Would you mind sharing these other reports?
    - astrange 4y ago
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
- tsimionescu 4y ago
  Here is the follow-up [0]. He truly believes that the chatbot he was supposed to be studying for racial biases is actually sentient, and the AI ethics concern he was raising with Google VPs is that the rights of the AI are not being thought about... He has even published a long "interview" with the chatbot [1] where he tries to get answers that prove the AI is sentient and has various desires. I personally don't think you can diagnose mental illness based on this type of belief (this is not some Terry Davis level of article by any means). The belief itself is extraordinarily ill-informed and self-delusional though, and the acts he took in support of this belief (according to the WaPo article he mentions, which came out in the meantime, he even hired a lawyer to represent the chatbot...) are extreme, and definitely merit some concerns for his well being. [0] https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do... [1] https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...
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