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Not to mention: (1) the Google engineer who "knows" what sentience looks like when chatting with a low-grade AI chatbot (2) the articles by Kevin Roose and ot
by glenstein 3y ago
Not to mention:
(1) the Google engineer who "knows" what sentience looks like when chatting with a low-grade AI chatbot
(2) the articles by Kevin Roose and other professional reporters about AI chatbots, believing they witnessed authentic confessions from ChatGPT that it wanted to become skynet, evincing a stunning lack of understanding of the function of large language models.
(3) NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell who came to believe in UFOs and became cited by conspiracy theorists for decades.
People at the centers of professional, institutional respectability who didn't have the wherewithal to step back and put thier impulses under the light of rational examination.
It's not without precedent, and we don't have anything other than second order interpertation of information that hasn't been revealed, but we do have a blizzard of breathless reporting enteratining presumptions that are way ahead of any actual established facts.
- jnwatson 3y agoYou can’t say that Bard isn’t sentient until you define sentience. UK just declared that lobsters are sentient. Why not Bard. I think Lemoine did the world a favor by giving it a good few months head start. From his podcast, it is obvious that Roose knows exactly what he dealt with in the Sydney affair. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t unnerving.