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Lemoine discovered the system had developed a deep sense of self-awareness No he didn't. He interpreted it that way.
by mellosouls 4y ago
Lemoine discovered the system had developed a deep sense of self-awareness
No he didn't. He interpreted it that way.
- Apocryphon 4y agoLocal man flunks Turing test
- bowmessage 4y agoWhat's the difference, really?
- sumeno 4y agoOne implies he was correct
- greenthrow 4y agoDiscovering would require it to be a fact. It is not. Almost nobody with knowledge in the area agrees with his opinion.
- dekhn 4y agonobody can say with any epistemic certainty, but many of us who had worked in the field of biological ML for some time do not see language models like this as anything but statistical generators. There is no... agency... so far as we can tell (although I also can't give any truly scientific argument for the existence of true agency in humans).
- visarga 4y agoIf you want agency you have to put the AI into an environment and give it the means to perceive and act on the environment. The agent needs to have a goal and reward signals to learn from. Humans come with all these - the environment, the body and the rewards - based on evolution. But AIs can too - https://wenlong.page/language-planner/ https://wenlong.page/language-planner/
- slickdork 4y agoI suppose you could argue sentience is subjective. But then that argument ends up extending to us eating babies -- at least, as Peter Singer taught us, right?
- pvarangot 4y agoA Nobel Prize?
- anigbrowl 4y agoMy hunch is that he kicks out a book and goes on the minor pundit circuit, and that this was the plan the whole time. If he was so convinced of Lambda's sentience there would have been 100 fascinating questions to ask, starting with 'what is your earliest memory.'.
- jeffparsons 4y agoI don't think it's malicious. I just think at some point he found that he wanted to believe, and it's hard to go back from there.
- RajT88 4y ago> I don't think it's malicious. Not yet it's not. It's when he realizes he can cash in on it that we'll see the inevitable book(s) and appearances on Coast to Coast / Alex Jones.
- woodruffw 4y agoPhilosophers are frequently pressed for cash, but usually not that pressed.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoBeing religious does not make you a philosopher...
- woodruffw 4y agoThe person we're talking about has a PhD in Philosophy. Which doesn't make you a philosopher either, except in the colloquial sense, which is the one that the original comment uses.
- dntrkv 4y agoWatch his interviews. He’s doing all this to make a point about companies not taking AI ethics seriously.
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoWho knows if he even believes this himself. From what I've seen my guess is he's trying to profit off the claim or just enjoys the drama/attention. Good riddance, the right decision to let him go. This case really made me question what sort of people work there as engineers. Utter embarrassment for Google.
- gaws 4y ago> No he didn't. He interpreted it that way. You should contact the author about this egregious fact error.
- mellosouls 4y agoThe author has said they've read the comments here, so is presumably not interested in correcting it.