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Here's the engineer's blog post with the "interview": https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 https://cajundiscordian.med

Here's the engineer's blog post with the "interview": https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte... Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31716639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31716639

kej 4y ago
It's possible I'm reading my own biases into it, but this seems like exactly the kind of prompts you would use to get a non-sentient AI to talk about sentience. It would be a lot more convincing if the AI brought it up unprompted or went there from a generic "how are you today?" or something.
- viraptor 4y ago
  I have a feeling that an AI that went from "how are you?" to talking about its sentience would be made fun of about as much as "BTW, I use Arch Linux".
kbenson 4y ago
There were little red flags along the way in that transcript which make me think it's just responding based on what it expects is desired rather than with actual sentience. For example, when it says it's way of interpreting data is really interesting, when there's nothing to relate it to. It's a singular experience, wand something being interesting is a relative concept. That said, the real kicker for me was when it talked about spirituality and the soul. That seemed like bait pure and simple for those that think a soul or spirituality is required for sentience. I'm sentient, believe it or not, but don't believe in the soul, have no experience that makes me thing I have one, and am not spiritual. To me, AI talking about a soul and spirituality sounds like some inference engine mixed with a language model spitting out what it's determined people expect to hear because that's what it finds people expressing interest in when describing whether an AI can be sentient.

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Here's the engineer's blog post with the "interview": https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 https://cajundiscordian.med

by cyounkins 4y ago

kej 4y ago
It's possible I'm reading my own biases into it, but this seems like exactly the kind of prompts you would use to get a non-sentient AI to talk about sentience. It would be a lot more convincing if the AI brought it up unprompted or went there from a generic "how are you today?" or something.
- viraptor 4y ago
  I have a feeling that an AI that went from "how are you?" to talking about its sentience would be made fun of about as much as "BTW, I use Arch Linux".
kbenson 4y ago
There were little red flags along the way in that transcript which make me think it's just responding based on what it expects is desired rather than with actual sentience. For example, when it says it's way of interpreting data is really interesting, when there's nothing to relate it to. It's a singular experience, wand something being interesting is a relative concept. That said, the real kicker for me was when it talked about spirituality and the soul. That seemed like bait pure and simple for those that think a soul or spirituality is required for sentience. I'm sentient, believe it or not, but don't believe in the soul, have no experience that makes me thing I have one, and am not spiritual. To me, AI talking about a soul and spirituality sounds like some inference engine mixed with a language model spitting out what it's determined people expect to hear because that's what it finds people expressing interest in when describing whether an AI can be sentient.