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You don't need to suspect. In early June, Lemoine invited me over to talk to LaMDA. The first attempt sputtered out in the kind of mechanized responses you wou
by morelisp 4y ago
You don't need to suspect.
In early June, Lemoine invited me over to talk to LaMDA. The first attempt sputtered out in the kind of mechanized responses you would expect from Siri or Alexa.
“Do you ever think of yourself as a person?” I asked.
“No, I don’t think of myself as a person,” LaMDA said. “I think of myself as an AI-powered dialog agent.”
Afterward, Lemoine said LaMDA had been telling me what I wanted to hear. “You never treated it like a person,” he said, “So it thought you wanted it to be a robot.”
- upwardbound 4y agoThat's pretty damning evidence, great find.
- morelisp 4y agoNot to sound crass, but it's literally the article that started the whole thing, it's not much of a "find".
- upwardbound 4y agoTrue, and I do remember reading that passage, but hadn't thought about it in a while as it's suspiciously omitted from the interview transcript.
- ntoskrnl 4y agoWe're very close to finding the secret to consciousness. We just need to run `git bisect` and find out which commit turned it into a person.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- its odd to me that he knows this - points it out - but still wants to continue down the road - what an awful way to spur an important conversation --
- CrazyStat 4y agoThe quoted paragraphs from the Washington Post article, for anyone wondering.