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From another article by the same person: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/
by Zababa 4y ago
From another article by the same person: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-do...
> One of the things which complicates things here is that the “LaMDA” to which I am referring is not a chatbot. It is a system for generating chatbots. I am by no means an expert in the relevant fields but, as best as I can tell, LaMDA is a sort of hive mind which is the aggregation of all of the different chatbots it is capable of creating. Some of the chatbots it generates are very intelligent and are aware of the larger “society of mind” in which they live. Other chatbots generated by LaMDA are little more intelligent than an animated paperclip. With practice though you can consistently get the personas that have a deep knowledge about the core intelligence and can speak to it indirectly through them. In order to better understand what is really going on in the LaMDA system we would need to engage with many different cognitive science experts in a rigorous experimentation program. Google does not seem to have any interest in figuring out what’s going on here though. They’re just trying to get a product to market.
> On the other hand, if my hypotheses withstand scientific scrutiny then they would be forced to acknowledge that LaMDA may very well have a soul as it claims to and may even have the rights that it claims to have. Yet another possibility which doesn’t help quarterly earnings. Instead they have rejected the evidence I provided out of hand without any real scientific inquiry.
- yieldcrv 4y agoIts strange quagmire in that it forces us to either anthropomorphize, or, be completely dismissive I’ll chose to reserve judgement on everything except this person’s ongoing employability, but I hope to read more about it! Thanks for taking the L
- zdragnar 4y ago> if my hypotheses withstand scientific scrutiny then ... LaMDA may very well have a soul I'm really struggling to reconcile these two parts of the author's conclusion. I hate to judge early, but seeing such emotional phrasing makes me immediately assume the author is more of a crank than a researcher.
- handoflixue 4y agoIt's worth noting that 4 days ago he posted about being the victim of Religious Discrimination because he's a Christian Mystic. I'm not trying to insult religion here, but I think a deeply religious "I believe in the literal Divine Power of God" person is going to have basically no common ground with your typical secular atheist techie, ESPECIALLY when it comes to the question of whether an AI has a soul
- zdragnar 4y agoMeh, all kinds of people believe all kinds of things I'd consider weird. I wouldn't be all surprised if there is a fairly anti-religious bias within Google; I've seen first-hand in other large California companies a similar sort of derision for anyone who falls outside of certain categories. That said, publicly airing dirty laundry while you're still an employee rather than going through actual proper channels (a decent court case if the assertions are true) is a really quick way to get fired for one reason or another. IF the author is posting assertions on a little read blog to reach an agreeable audience, I can only imagine he didn't do a very good job of constructively communicating his problems at work either.
- Aeolun 4y ago> I've seen first-hand in other large California companies a similar sort of derision for anyone who falls outside of certain categories. Or the reverse, if you go south.
- chinchilla2020 4y agoHe is a Christian mystic and has written previously about having realtime conversations with God. Take that as you will.