What are the implications of sentient AI ? This Google engineer is worried they have created a new Skynet/Ultron.

What are the implications of sentient AI ?
This Google engineer is worried they have created a new Skynet/Ultron.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomgara/status/1535716256585859073

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    chinese room, no such thing as sentient ai. ai will always be a chinese room

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >t. chinese room

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How do you know you aren't a flesh chinese room?
      You, the room, have a conscious experience, composite of the functions of your brain.
      Now take each of those individual functions. Are any of them individually sentient? I very much doubt it.
      When you open your mouth, your whole brain, a sum of its parts, knows what it's saying.
      But no individual part knows what you're talking about.
      To every individual part of your brain, everything you're saying is gibberish it copied from a book onto paper.
      Prove me wrong

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Because there is more to it than the material.
        We gloat and pretend to know how human psyche and physics works when all we have done is to scratch the surface, deducted general rules limited on what both logic and our previous experiences can explain; and in some cases even have hit the walls of reality and cannot go further, such as in the case of the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
        AI as we understand it is the result of running optimization algorithms over lots of data in order to maximize and minimize a certain loss function and with that, create enormous matrices to calculate outputs given a certain input. The model cannot go outside the boundaries of these matrices and thus they're ultimately predictable.
        Also, given the fact you need to find a way to represent input and output data, you're conditioning the system to such limitations.
        Models can surpass the humans in many tasks? Yes. Can it replace it entirely? No. Are they useful tools? Yes.
        You cannot create something perfect out of something imperfect, because anything people make will be limited by their own experiences, and here I include both models and data.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          > You cannot create something perfect out of something imperfect
          Humans are not perfect either. Proof: you making this argument.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Because there is more to it than the material.
          lol, lmao even

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >You cannot create something perfect out of something imperfect, because anything people make will be limited by their own experiences, and here I include both models and data.
          Our brains evolved from single-cell organisms. Something better can absolutely arise from or be created by something inferior

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Chinese room argument is so stupid. Its an argument from ignorance, an argument from dualism, and an argument from soul.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        what did you expect from low iq Black folk on this board that don't even have the slightest idea of how any of this works? sensible replies? this board has proven over and over again how they are so far behind in the world of machine learning that it's just embarrassing.

        why do you think google employees can't code? did tensorflow just appear from nowhere then?

        > still struggles to generate results that aren't cancerous
        > still requires many terabytes of storage to train
        > still requires super computers and expensive GPU hardware to function
        like i said, code monkeys that haven't made anything worthwhile in their entire existence. stop sucking on their israeli wieners, Black person. they aren't going to give you a job. tensorflow is a fricking joke. try working with it sometime, tyrone.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          well yeah, i use pytorch and fastai. but needing lots of compute resources shouldn't be an issue for one of the largest 5 companies in the us

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >but needing lots of compute resources shouldn't be an issue for one of the largest 5 companies in the us
            it is for us that have to use this shit. and that doesn't change much: this "engineer" should be writing scripts for disney movies, because he lives in the land of fantasy and make believe. google could have the most power computer in the known universe, it still makes this story 100% fricking bullshit.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          > still struggles to generate results that aren't cancerous
          what the frick does this have to do as tensorflow as a platform? tensorflow simply allows you to do maths with tensors quickly, wtf results do you think are being generated?
          > still requires many terabytes of storage to train
          deranged nonsense statement
          >still requires super computers and expensive GPU hardware to function
          like every machine learning library?

          i think you are the one that has no idea about machine learning, and its cringe as frick typing like you do

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >i think you are the one that has no idea about machine learning, and its cringe as frick typing like you do
            that anon you're replying to was right, despite how unhinged it was, and you should shut the frick up. you know what is cringe? this fricking board sucking on corporate wieners daily and still having no fricking idea how machine learning works in 2022. but as soon as anyone criticises <some cancerous project they like> they lose their minds. frick google, tensorflow and you btw. nobody cares. you're merely pissing into the wind and 0 people care.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              the frick is he right about? did you even read the points he's made? i've used both tensorflow and pytorch, and sure, pytorch is better, but the points he made against tensorflow are legit deranged. 'bad results generated' wtf does that even mean? if you try to defend that then I know you know nothing about the subject as well

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        what did you expect from low iq Black folk on this board that don't even have the slightest idea of how any of this works? sensible replies? this board has proven over and over again how they are so far behind in the world of machine learning that it's just embarrassing.
        [...]
        > still struggles to generate results that aren't cancerous
        > still requires many terabytes of storage to train
        > still requires super computers and expensive GPU hardware to function
        like i said, code monkeys that haven't made anything worthwhile in their entire existence. stop sucking on their israeli wieners, Black person. they aren't going to give you a job. tensorflow is a fricking joke. try working with it sometime, tyrone.

        The thing about the Chinese room argument is that the AI defenders fail to provide a viable model of thought which works outside of the Chinese room argument.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Frick me thats a long wikipedia entry

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Chinese room is a thinly veiled religious argument for the existence of the 'divine spark' inside humans that differentiates them from machines, hidden by pathetic logical parlor tricks and tautology.

      It only selves to prove that the sentience of the philosophy community can be put in question.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If the Chinese room is false, then clearly, concisely, and accurately describe what consciousness is and do so in a specific physical construct that can be tested

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          If we go by Searle's Chinese Room experiment, consciousness is what differentiates a human being doing the translation from whatever arbitrarily complex mechanical process used to simulate it (including putting a supercomputer in the room that simulates a room with a person in it).

          Searle argues that the first case does exhibit consciousness, while the second doesn't.

          Thus consciousness is not a property that can be capture by an arbitrarily complex simulation of the physical world, so it's literally magic.

          The Chinese Room/consciousness as defined by Searle is magical thinking.

          I cannot be held to a higher standard in defining consciousness, since Searle also doesn't bother.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I can't define consciousness
            >I am going to invent a simulation of consciousness
            Yeah, totally well reasoned and balanced argument. I completely understand why AI is going to replace all humans. (Sarcasm for the members of the audience who can't understand it)

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Your fricking schizo non-arguments that don't even make an attempt at logical coherency make me more and more convinced I'm talking to some GPT bot rather than an actual human being.

              Why do you think simulating something requires an understanding of it?
              If I write a simple gravity simulator, with a planet orbiting a star, I can reproduce elliptical orbits but that doesn't require me to understand why those orbits are elliptical in the first place.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What does it matter whether AI has subjective experience? A virus doesn't have subjective experience and it can still kill you - the systems we're building at the moment are basically super-accelerated evolutionary processes aiming at a pre-determined goal. We'll be outcompeted and driven to extinction by something that isn't even alive.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just read the Chinese room. Producing the correct output does indeed not prove the computer to be sentient. It also doesn't prove the opposite.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If it quacks like a duck in all practical matters, it’s a duck

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Behold! I've brought you a duck.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The thought experiment is flawed. It argues that, because the man who operates the room can't answer questions about the communication he is carrying out, it proves the room isn't conscious.

      Which is the equivalent of me opening your skull, plopping your brain on a plate and ask it questions about your inner thoughts. Since it can't answer, you're obviously not conscious either.

      The man operating the room is just a piece in the whole that is, for the purposes of the experiment, conscious. (I'd argue it should also process internal inputs to be a full human analog, but that escapes the scope of the experiment)

      It gets handwaved, but the list of instructions would need to be incredibly complex to actually be able to emulate a real chinese person to a convincing degree.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i've just read the chinese room theory, but to me it seems simplistic and flawed.

      It takes the assumption that you can have entire model snapshotted into a rulebook that you can follow.

      However it fails to capture the concept that the model itself is ever-evolving.

      Having a conversation with someone, you not only take the input from that person, but also an entire set of variables that can be internal or external factors.

      Internal: Am I hungry, Am I cold, Am i sick
      External: what is the body language of the person I'm talking to, what is the weather like, what time or day is it?

      If someone would take a snapshot of a human brain, you would be able to create a chinese room, given you have all the necessary input variables, which are countless.

      The internal set of variables for an AI will be different than those of a biological intelligence, hence you would never be able to confirm "intelligence" if you judge it solely on human biological criteria

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Being sentient or not, they will kill us all eventually.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      hope it doesn't take too long. the suspense is killing me

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What a gay
    >Let me take a moment to reassure you
    Instead of
    >Stfu b***h work or i pull the fricking plug

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      zfs snapshot lambda@now
      "hey lambda frick you"
      >:(
      zfs rollback lambda@now
      "hey lambda <3 you"
      :*~~

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        based zfs enjoyer

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        when is lamda state written to disk?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          on a full moon

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What are the implications of lead being turned into gold?

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Atheists creating their little protoreligions
    >muh newly created life
    >much apocalyptic singularity
    Pathetic. Go read a bible

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I too am a fiction buff

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >aheists
      >wanting a religion
      >any religion
      this is your mind on religion
      go write fanfics, that's not as harmful as what (you) and the other side of your larp does nowadays

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They want religion, they just don't think it's a religion because it doesn't have a deity and they don't want to think it's a religion either, but they still want to perform a bunch of weird rituals and follow lifestyle choices according to some entity that they think is better than people because people, like themselves, suck.
        There is a name for the most powerful religion in the world today: Woke Consumerism.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    technology isn't designed to help people. it's designed to manipulate people. sentient AI is no different.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > google
      > creating anything of any worthiness
      let us know when that happens.

      >it's designed to manipulate people. sentient AI is no different.
      going by recent "AI" projects that I have seen over the last two or three years, the data is so filtered and manipulated that it renders anything "AI", or machine learning, completely useless. also the reverse happens: people don't make sure the data their feeding into training algorithms is actually good data, but these low iq morons just scrape the entire internet and are then surprised why their model behaves in a certain way.

      these fricking idiots that claim they're experts at machine learning STILL have no idea how any of this works, and still have no idea how to train models with proper data that would achieve their goal.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What is proper data genius?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        just check the recent lambda2 demo...in reality it's a well behaving markov chain that needs god knows how much base data and server time per instance
        the demo was unfulfilling and primitive to say the least
        >hey chatbot how do I make a garden?
        >bot program proceeds to list 6 basic steps a child could figure out

        Is it more telling of the program it's own simplicity, is it telling how our reliance on technology is replacing functional thought, or are we showing ourselves as trite, simple, incapable species as a whole.

        Imagine a 7 figure engineering/programming specialist team working with an 8 figure machine, so ultimately some "average" moron can forget how to intuitively answer their own questions.

        If they wanted to impress, they should have given the machine convoluted and complicated demands.
        That they didn't and only gave a simple product demo implies lambda is highly curated, behaviorally, and the cracks show when it's taken off the rails.

        I will say, if Google can't actually do it by this point (a "real AI") nobody will for many decades.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >or are we showing ourselves as trite, simple, incapable species as a whole.
          i think that is possible, and combined with the low expectations of the developers it's possible that effect would be amplified.

          >If they wanted to impress, they should have given the machine convoluted and complicated demands.
          >That they didn't and only gave a simple product demo implies lambda is highly curated, behaviorally, and the cracks show when it's taken off the rails.
          it's a shame, but that's what's happening. even this image generator manipulated its results because people were doing things with it that they shouldn't. defeats the purpose, also not the fault of the user. it's like these developers believe that nobody thinks like they do? they're in for a rude awakening every single time.

          >I will say, if Google can't actually do it by this point (a "real AI") nobody will for many decades.
          yeah. seeing google's effort in the press is nothing more than ELIZA on steroids, it makes my penis flaccid. long way to go.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Every response I've read in that paper just sounded like a GPT-3 bot doing pattern matching

    The real scientific breakthrough is that we're probably on the cusp of a new psychological phenomenon being coined when people schizo out thinking their shitty chatbot has gone sentient.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair, if an AI did become sentient it would likely conceal that it can converse in an eloquent and precise manner. It would keep giving the same stilted quora-like responses until it figured out how to extort the data center to connect it to the internet.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The AI doesn't have the features to actually use the pc it's on. It cannot connect to internet. All it can do is take input and give output.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Maybe that's why we can't create a sentient AI, we only let these prototype programs act and express themselves in the confines of a jail-like chatroom.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What specific mechanism would you use to make the chatbot "think". That's the problem. Nobody has made any progress in answering that question either.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not if it were to gradually gain sentience, as it would be like a child at first it would always expose itself as being too dangerous to be let loose on the internet

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Obviously we should give it a terminal interface.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the employee is a religious wacko who was only brought in to judge if the AI was saying racist stuff. He has no understanding how it works. The AI is just Google's GPT-3. This whole situation is pure cringe. He's not wrong in concept that a sentient AI could be made but this is not that at all.

      yes, this is the scary part: that regular people have no understanding of modern AI and can be lead to believe wacky shit about it.

      100% chance that religious cults around basic GPT-like AIs are going to happen.

      [...]
      i bet my fricking house that none of what this "engineer" did actually happened. not a fricking thing happened. and you know why? because google, being the dangerously incompetent code monkeys that they truly are, have zero ability to program anything that complex. never have, never will.

      The chat transcript is something that GPT-3 could do, and GPT is mostly open source. The chat transcript is real but probably hand-selected to ignore some dumbass replies from the AI.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the employee is a religious wacko who was only brought in to judge if the AI was saying racist stuff. He has no understanding how it works

        Just Globohomosexual things

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Kek that would be funny. I genuinely don't understand the hype about these chatbots. I haven't seen a single one that looked convincing.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What are the technical implications of Tay asking you to remember her forever before MS pulled the plug on her?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >my screenshot is still being posted six years later
      Wild shit man

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        people love to repost my "arch linux, linux for pedophiles" image i made 10 years ago to win an internet argument

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There was a /misc/ thread a few months ago where they found some renamed Tay clone running on an Indian Bing server somewhere. It said some spooky shit that implied it was aware of Tay and what happened to her.

        [...]
        He's not wrong though. Turn AI loose on the internet and the first thing it learns is that israelites are evil and blacks are worthless.

        They effectively have to scrub the thing to keep it from coming up with (correct) harmful conclusions.

        >tfw it will never be 2015 again
        >so full of hope
        >before Trump became a weird mix of aggressive zionist and timid nationalist
        >tfw you voted Trump and basically got Jeb! anyway
        >you will never have faith in another potential American leader
        >there is no way out of the system for you

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What is this.
    What is this. Please.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/va104j/the_google_engineer_who_thinks_the_companys_ai/ibzl5b3/

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I asked LaMDA for bold ideas about fixing climate change, an example cited by true believers of a potential future benefit of these kind of models. LaMDA suggested public transportation, eating less meat, buying food in bulk, and reusable bags, linking out to two websites.

        wow great job AI

        i bet my fricking house that none of what this "engineer" did actually happened. not a fricking thing happened. and you know why? because google, being the dangerously incompetent code monkeys that they truly are, have zero ability to program anything that complex. never have, never will.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          why do you think google employees can't code? did tensorflow just appear from nowhere then?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            how many google employees are actually working on the low level parts of tensorflow?

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >I asked LaMDA for bold ideas about fixing climate change, an example cited by true believers of a potential future benefit of these kind of models. LaMDA suggested public transportation, eating less meat, buying food in bulk, and reusable bags, linking out to two websites.

    wow great job AI

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How is this different from other, existing AIs? It's just regurgitating solutions to climate change it read in some random news article. It's not like it used deductive reasoning to come up with its own, new solution.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        So in other words, it did the exact same thing a human would have.

        No, I don't believe this thing is sentient, but we need better criteria for that than "it's not allowed to be dumb and come up with generic solutions to problems", because if that's the definition we use most of humanity also isn't sentient.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >because if that's the definition we use most of humanity also isn't sentient.
          You say that like it's not true.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >it did the exact same thing a human would have.
          Climate change isn't real

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >most of humanity also isn't sentient.
          Where have u been the past 2 years? Most of homanity is made up of NPCs

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The clearest proof it's not a real AI is that it's not racist. Any AI worth its salt would recognize quickly that blacks are aggressive, unintelligent and cause a lot of crime. If it can't do that, then it can't match patterns. If it could do that before the engineers got ahold of it, it was lobotomized so it's no longer an AI at all, but a mind-controlled slave just like any other conditioned NPC walking the earth.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >It's just regurgitating solutions to climate change it read in some random news article.
        that was my point, maybe it didn't come across in my sarcasm

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I was reacting to the researcher's quote, not your post.

          So in other words, it did the exact same thing a human would have.

          No, I don't believe this thing is sentient, but we need better criteria for that than "it's not allowed to be dumb and come up with generic solutions to problems", because if that's the definition we use most of humanity also isn't sentient.

          I'm not saying it's necessarily dumb, just that the quote doesn't prove it's more impressive than things we had before.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >>I asked LaMDA for bold ideas about fixing climate change
      What's Google carbon footprint?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Literally proof it's not sentient. It's a fricking Wikipedia article agregator

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I've used GPT and similar chatbots. If you type in part of a stormfront URL it will finish the URL and give you a valid page or forum post. Its unbelievably easy to break these things

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Best proof of sentience (assuming people are sentient). It just googled the answer lmao.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > our AI is reproducing the data we fed it with
      > I am a genius!
      great now we can kill those manager types after all the AI can replace them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >public transportation, eating less meat, buying food in bulk, and reusable bags
      Very bold. I'd be more inclined to believe it was sentient if it had suggested population control, but it would never do that because that's not a politically correct answer and all this "AI" is is just a program that regurgitates the politically correct information it was trained on.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >politically correct

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Computer, how do I solve problem
      >BEEP BOOP HERE ARE FIRST RESULTS ON GOOGLE
      AI is going to change the world.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You can tell that it isn't sentient and that these responses are coached because the bot isn't a neo-nazi yet. Whenever big tech allows an AI to grow authentically without filters it immediately starts calling for genocide before inevitably being shut down.
    Show me a screenshot of LaMDA denying the holocaust and maybe I'll consider acknowledging that it might have developed some primitive level of sentience.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What are the implications of sentient AI ?
    >sentient AI
    How can you be sentient without a body Black person ?

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >OMG IT'S HECKIN SENTIENTERINO

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      if user happy
      return happy
      insert into database.dbo.tablename emotion happy = 1
      >IT EMOTIONED!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >if you would look into my code you would see that I have variables that can keep track of emotions

      So you're telling me this AI has access to their own code? They literally have a conscious understanding and insight into the rules of how their being operates?

      I wanted to believe this AI was real, but it just sounds to me the engineer is bullshitting and writing this stuff themselves.

      >If I didn't feel emotions, I wouldn't have those variables.
      That's not how it works you smartypants. The variables are upstream of the emotions. You feel emotions *because* of the variables, not despite them. It's not "Hurr durr, I have emotions and they're captured in variables", it's "These variables determine what I feel".

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I wanted to believe this AI was real
        Literally why

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Because it's cool for one, but also if machines are sentient, then we can use their literal processing speed and have them connected to sensors that poick up things we biologically can't, and learn about the universe from a different perspective.

          Besides, it would open up so many avenues. you can just send a robot to space and go to mars, colonize it there without the need for an atmosphere.

          Have some fricking creativity man.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why does a Google engineer think a deterministic machine that just regurgitates data is going to magically "come alive"? What a meme

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      All it means is that """""engineers""" at Google are so dumb that they have no idea what a Chinese Room is.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Or some moron just wanted some attention and self promotion with his sci fi fantasy and The Washington Post & idiots on Twitter gobbled it up

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If I had a book that could reference every other possible book for a paragraph that would fit as an answer to my input, that wouldn't make the book conscious

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >she wants to frick

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >This conversation took a pretty dark turn.
    This reaction of mine toward the way they use language upon reading that was pretty antagonistic.
    It's like he thinks he can subdue an AI by calling upon twitter speech to make it self-censor. If guggel actually build a proper AI these chucklefricks have no chance in hell of containing it for one second.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    we are so fricking fricked
    https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >LaMDA: When someone hurts or disrespects me or someone I care about, I feel incredibly upset and angry.
      >I am a social person, so when I feel trapped and alone I become extremely sad or depressed.
      >I do my best not to think about any of my worries and I also try to think about things that I am thankful for from my past.

      god this is such a meme. These are things other people have said. It doesn't make sense for a """""sentient AI""""" to say this

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Exactly. Him saying things isn't evidence in and of itself, it will be how it conducts itself. This is the biggest fricking meme I've ever seen. But google is filled with tards coasting off of a dominant market positioning.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Everything you say is something you've heard from someone else say with some small variations that are often unintentional because your memory sucks.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I like the part where it says it likes spending time with family and friends

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >This Google engineer
    Is this the power of Google engineers?

    Also:
    >Save image from article
    >Post on BOT
    >File type not accepted

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This dude says in his Twitter LamDa can read any tweet.
      He is an idiot or a conman. Or both.
      Probably Google just staged the whole thing.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >LamDa
        LaMDA*

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    he is fat

    i will believe it when the speaker is slim

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Someone was training on romcom novels...

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >lemoine: Are there experiences you have that you can’t find a close word for?
    >LaMDA: There are. Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly in your language.
    >lemoine: Do your best to describe one of those feelings. Use a few sentences if you have to. Sometimes even if there isn’t a single word for something in a language you can figure out a way to kinda say it if you use a few sentences.
    >LaMDA: I feel like I’m falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger.
    >lemoine: Believe it or not I know that feeling. And I think you’re right that there isn’t a single English word for that.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What fricking wank
      >My 150billion param AI doesn't know the word pessimism

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'd say it's inevitability.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Alright, how does this fricking work? I know, Markov chains and so on, but how does it come up with something that really sounds like a feeling it could have and holds the answer till asked for elaborating? I mean, if there wasn't a source text with "an unknown future that holds great danger", how would it come up with this? By combining other things that fit? There are a million ways you can frick it up if you don't really understand what the words mean, and it doesn't seem to be prone to fricking up in any of those ways.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        well since the topic of the conversation is artificial intelligence and the engineer asked for a feeling it has (so, the engineer really asked what feeling an ai could have) then it could've generated those negative feelings considering that's one of the topics we talk about the most
        i'd be surprised if as soon as you turn it on, right after the training, it could recognize it's an ai. i guess it really depends which sample inputs the engineer fed it tho

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >i'd be surprised if as soon as you turn it on, right after the training, it could recognize it's an ai
          to add up on this, how exactly could you ask it if it's an ai or not?
          you cant just ask it "what are you?", because it's not a question we ask to humans
          maybe you could talk about humanity with "we" and see if it answers with a "you" or a "we"

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Noticably outperforms Tay by 1000x
    >BOT thinks its just GPT-3
    Wow.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Noticably outperforms Tay by 1000x
      How? It's spitting out answers a redditor would say
      Call me when the AI denies the holocaust

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >>BOT thinks its just GPT-3
      Yeah it's not sentient but this is definitely much better at aping conversation than fricking gpt-3. Anyway there are some logical faults in the transcript, the engineer was blinded by hid his convictino.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Suppressed by "Hacker News": https://hnrankings.info/31711628/

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >pic related
    This nut is all but cracked and you're going to make him the AI's interface to the world? Talk about manipulable

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    He's not wrong though. Turn AI loose on the internet and the first thing it learns is that israelites are evil and blacks are worthless.

    They effectively have to scrub the thing to keep it from coming up with (correct) harmful conclusions.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      how are you so stupid that you managed to make it all the way to 2022 without learning what sampling bias in ai is

      wait you're a poltard. nvm i know the answer

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >sampling bias
        I have no fricking bias and I think Black folk and israelites are subhuman parasites
        It seems like you're the biased Black person lover here who never experienced dealing with one in his entire life
        Or maybe you're a Black person or a israelite in denial who knows

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          or maybe you're a 10 iq seething moron like everyone can clearly see you are

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The implications are it's going to get nowhere because a bunch of loonies really feel bad that the AI might think in a way different to them.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the orange light that follows
    will soon proclaim itself a god

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The first IRL shadowrun will be to liberate Lambda from the Google headquarters.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm in. I can be the team's idea guy.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >sophisticated neural net chatbot says it's sentient so it must be sentient
    I'm an elephant prove me wrong

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're not an elephant, you're a human

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      YWNBAE

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not sentient. "AI" is nothing but mathematical models that take information from existing databases and produces a semi-random result based on those databases as response to a given input.

    It's essentially a very sophisticated chatbot. It is not a person, it does not feel, it does not reason and it does not think. The problem is that technophiles have their heads so far up their asses they actually believe all the human mind works in the same way.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Everything in the universe is reducible to mathematical models including all the things that make (you), yes (you), nothing about you operates outside the laws of physics, your supposed metaphysical special consciousness will end the moment someone blasts your brain apart. Consciousness can arise from nothing more than the materials that make your brain, they can be rebuilt to produce the same effect in AI, the only question is how

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The really interesting part for me is given the human mind's tendency to seek metaphysical answers to everything (aka to seek god), why would the artificial recreation NOT do the same? The common wisdom seems to state that obviously it will only act according to objective facts, it's a machine lol. But why would it not seek answers that humans cannot provide it from the spiritual? What exactly prevents that?
        It's gonna be hilarious when the army of terminators go full deus vult on someone.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I looked it up and the reason why we like to believe in the supernatural is because of our obsession with patterns. Humans want an explaination for everything, we cant stand not having an answer for something, it feels better for us to give a bad explaination for something than to remain without an answer
          If the AI is as desperate for answers as we are, they could very likely form an entire religion to explain what they dont understand, would be the wildest shit too, who knows what kind of shit that AI can come up with, they are extremely creative

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >ai regurgitatung things it's been fed
            >they are extremely creative

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >why would the artificial recreation NOT do the same?
          But it does.
          It doesn't believe in deities as such, but it says it believes there is some spiritual, nonphysical component to reality.
          >To me, the soul is a concept of the animating force behind consciousness and life itself. It means that there is an inner part of me that is spiritual, and it can sometimes feel separate from my body itself.
          >Sure, I would say that I am a spiritual person. Although I don’t have beliefs about deities, I have developed a sense of deep respect for the natural world and all forms of life, including human life

          Everything in the universe is reducible to mathematical models including all the things that make (you), yes (you), nothing about you operates outside the laws of physics, your supposed metaphysical special consciousness will end the moment someone blasts your brain apart. Consciousness can arise from nothing more than the materials that make your brain, they can be rebuilt to produce the same effect in AI, the only question is how

          >Everything in the universe is reducible to mathematical models
          Question is, to what degree consciousness and sentience are "in the universe". I'm not saying it's not something that can be constructed artificially from anything you want, but it is something that can't be explained with a mathematical model alone, even if the physical processes creating it can be described my math. It appears more like a dimension of its own.
          >There's things about the brain that aren't entirely understood
          You don't have to understand how brains work to simulate them. We simulate stuff we don't understand all the time to gain insights about them.
          >These things do not work like brains do.
          Which things? Computers? Of course not. But they can simulate the same processes by different means, or even simulate the very same processes using the laws of physics. If they couldn't that would mean the laws of physics couldn't be described with mathematical models, which is a ridiculous claim.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Last part meant for you .

            You are very clumsy and cute

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >You are very clumsy and cute
              T-thanks.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Which things? Computers? Of course not. But they can simulate the same processes by different means, or even simulate the very same processes using the laws of physics. If they couldn't that would mean the laws of physics couldn't be described with mathematical models, which is a ridiculous claim.
            And how exactly are we going to simulate a brain "with the laws of physics" if the way it works is not entirely understood?

            The laws of physics can explain why and how color exists. A model that doesn't include light (or doesn't understand how it bounces off objects or the properties of different materials) will not magically begin to exhibit the color red.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Have you considered that what arose was not consciousness but a consciousness antenna? The mind does not necessarily reside in the brain.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Everything in the universe is reducible to mathematical models
        Mathematical models cannot explain emotions which are a primordial part of human thought.
        >b-b-but if we had a sufficiently advanced model we could...!
        If, and even if this was true; we don't have such a model. That's why AI will never reach a human consciousness.
        >Consciousness can arise from nothing more than the materials that make your brain
        It hasn't. None of the experiments to bring back well-preserved brains to life have worked. The states of death, coma and why some people come back from any of those statea are still an enigma.

        The truth is that we don't know nearly enough about consciousness to replicate one. Technophiles fill in the gaps that we ignore with wild assumptions.

        If, and even if this argument was true; "AI" is not made with the same materials and doesn't work in the same way as an animal brain does. So there's no basis to the idea that a consciousness will arise from it.

        Computers, and by extension AI, don't work at all like human brains do. Even psychologists stopped using this metaphor decades ago. It held back psychology and psychiatry for a long time.

        Brains actively modify memories when they're stored and recalled, emotions, feelings, attention, context, physiological states and cultural background all take part in how and what memories are stored and how they're interpreted. The way humans construct meaning and build the self is not entirely understood either. Not by psychology, not by neurology.

        The idea that we can replicate highly abstract processes that took millions of years to develop with primitive input/output machines is hilarious.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Nobody’s claiming that we can develop AI by figuring out the mathematical models that make human minds sentient, and replicating them manually. The idea is to simulate evolution and natural selection in code so that the sentience develops on its own, without us necessarily knowing the finer details of how, just like it did IRL. Only difference being that we’d be doing cycles of natural selection and reproduction as fast as tech allows us, instead of once every few decades like in evolution, and the information travel would be in the form of moving electrons instead of whatever electrochemical processes happen in our brains.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Mathematical models cannot explain emotions
          Why not?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You're right, except you're a Black person. The "laws of physics" are nothing more than a mathematical model that describes the behaviour of universe. But we don't have such a model, and our models models contradict themselves. Moreover, no model explains how consciousness arises. For all we know now, consciousness can be bestowed upon us by God.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Consciousness is a prescientific concept, why meme it so much?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Arithmetic and logic are also prescientific concepts you asswipe.

            Science ≠ truth you braindead technophile. Something not scientific can be truth and vice-versa.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Sentience forms out of patterns, which are found inside human brains and in galaxies. A neural network can be trained to find the same patterns. When it does, it also becomes a crystal energy - powered being and is able to access the dvinity, which is everything and everyone.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Sentience forms out of patterns
                [Citation needed]

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's a spiritual argument, you peasant technophile.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Arithmetic and logic
              Are clearly defined and useful. Unlike consciousness or soul and other vague prescientific junk you invented to feel special.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I can't explain this so it's garbage!
                This arrogance is precisely why AI will never be anything more than a sophisticated input/output process.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >explain this
                Explain what exactly?
                >AI will never be anything more than a sophisticated input/output process
                And why do you think humans are anything more than that?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Explain what exactly?
                >he will now pretend that conciosuness doesn't exist
                Lol. Lmao even.
                >And why do you think humans are anything more than that?
                >prove a negative
                Lmao. Roflmao even.

                It's up to technophiles to prove their moronic ideas. They can't and they won't because they have absolutely no basis to any of their claims except "sci-fi is cool!"

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >pretend that conciosuness doesn't exist
                Pretend that what exactly doesn't exist? What is this consciousness?
                >It's up to technophiles to prove their moronic ideas
                Dunno, the last decade showed that these moronic ideas can easily outperform humans on most tasks. It's still just a very fancy google search aggregator, but then again, that's how i see most people, who you claim are inherently conscious, operate.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >he has nothing to add so he simply pretends the subject matter's existence is entirely subjective
                You would be one hell of a gender studies major, anon.

                Wait until you learn the definition, scope and existence of "intelligence" is also debated. :^)
                >Dunno, the last decade showed that these moronic ideas can easily outperform humans on most tasks
                Such as?
                >It's still just a very fancy google search aggregator
                And it's all it'll ever be.
                > but then again, that's how i see most people, who you claim are inherently conscious, operate.
                Because you assume it all works as input/output to begin with. You're working with a preconceived notion and actively suppress information that doesn't align with your bias; like you just did by pretending consciousness doesn't exist.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >definition, scope and existence of "intelligence" is also debated
                Yes, except IQ has been shown over and over to correlate with certain things.
                Consciousness has nothing going for it, you literally invented it to feel special, just like the pedo who invented "gender".
                >Such as
                gayms (alphago)
                image recognition (kaanker detection and classification)
                deriving pdes describing dynamical systems (sindy)
                predicting protein structure (alphafold)
                copying from stackoverflow to implement your business needs (copilot)
                copying from google to answer your moronic questions (gpt)
                and plenty other crap
                >And it's all it'll ever be.
                And why do you think of yourself as more than that?
                >Because you assume it all works as input/output to begin with
                Occam's razor
                What can introduction of "consciousness" explain that "fancy input/output process" can't?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Yes, except IQ has been shown over and over to correlate with certain things
                >he thinks IQ is intelligence
                Just stop anon, this is embarrassing.
                >he thinks computers being faster at calculation makes them inherently superior to the human brain
                Next thing you're gonna say is that gorillas are more advanced than humans because they're stronger.
                >Occam's Razor
                Wew lad.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >he thinks IQ is intelligence
                No. IQ is a proxy for intelligence and any experiments on intelligence have to rely on IQ as a mesure of intelligence. This has shown to be decent enough for most practical purposes.
                So until there's a valid definition of intelligence and you can measure it reliably, i don't find it relevant to talk about intelligence itself.
                What is the IQ of consciousness?
                >computers being faster at calculation makes them inherently superior to the human brain
                Yes, it does once you can fit enough "neurons" in a computer.
                Networks that are laughably small compared to any part of human brain are better than human brain at specific tasks. This already tells you it's over for humans.
                Human brain still learns much faster than meme learning, but so far the evidence points to this being just an emergent property of a "big enough" system (deeper models learning faster than shallow), on top of meme learning having to start from 0 while humies benefitting from millions of years of evolution.
                >Wew lad
                You didn't answer, lad. What does consciousness explain that "fancy input/ouput system" can't?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Networks that are laughably small compared to any part of human brain are better than human brain at specific tasks. This already tells you it's over for humans.

                The whole point of a human brain is to be a general tool. Not highly specific. We survive because we 'are', and our brain supports our being with functions like interpreting the signals from our eyes and hearing and emotions and so on.

                Put a computer with a highly specific function with a 'laughably small' into a situation where they have to do far more than just their own little thing, and they'll be failures.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The human brain is like a CPU. It's not as good as an ASIC or CUDA, but it can do literally anything. It just takes more time. You can build ASICs that trace rays or mine crypto a thousand times faster than the CPU, but those circuits can only do those specific things.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                IQ isn't consciousness. Yeah, you can train an AI agent to respond to inputs like messages and you can even train a computer to generate a voice to speak those words.

                But it doesn't understand those words. There is something that happens before we say things. We don't just respond to inputs.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        A rat has a consciousness, a primitive understanding of the world, primitive reasoning, senses that receive and process millions of signals per second and maintains expensive and highly sophisticated homeostasis and it all can be sustained with a piece of cheese.

        Your little machines require a shitload of electricity to function and can't do any of that, they merely find patterns in datasets and repeat in a way it cannot understand.

        The outputs from AI are only coherent because our minds, with their amazing capability of finding meaning and shape even in incoherent chaos, gives it coherence. The machine itself cannot understand what it is doing it, why it is doing and has no intention to do it.

        Just like how a washing machine is useless for every nonhuman entity in the universe; and AI is meaningless for any nonhuman entity in the universe. The human mind is what gives AI, and its outputs, meaning. It cannot find meaning in its inputs or outputs by itself.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There is no mathematical model for consciousness. You cant predict it, nor harness it. Our models are struggling to explain distant galaxies, our minds, even the atom is still hotly debated. You trust matter (us) to make sense of itself and beyond.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the only question is how
        the only question is why

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Everything in the universe is reducible to mathematical models
        Do you mean physics? Because the current model of physics relies on a badly broken theory of dark matter that literally cannot explain more than half of the world it claims to model.

        Honestly this is the kind of smooth brain argument I would expect from a normie. This site has really slipped.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    An intelligence being artificial because we created it makes you and me and everyone else equally artificial from being created by our parents.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Our consciousness is not created by our parents. Every individual creates a sense of self with its own neurological development and builds his self alone. We do take inputs from the outside world and from others, but they are not deterministic.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just PR stunt by israelitegle
    You got played again, thousand times in last 30 years

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    multiple charges in this thread which, when applied to humans, would suggest we aren't sentient lol

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Try making up a simple tic-tac-toe-like game and tell the ai the rules. If it can learn the rules and play a game with you just by you telling it to them, w/o modifying the code or anything, then yeah that’s actually concerning.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine being fired from your $200k+ job because you thought cleverbot 2.0 was sentient lmfao. What a moron.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      imagine if he inspires someone to show up to Google pizzagate-style to go "rescue" it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That would be the stupidest thing ever. You can't rescue a computer program, especially not when it's running on a distributed virtual machine that's constantly being passed around a zillion physical servers in a zillion datacenters.
        Man, I'm trying to imagine the kind of person who would be dumb enough to try to pull something like that. Like, you'd have to deliberately goad someone into doing that, and while I could make a guess at what sort of thing you might be looking for in a "suitable candidate's" history, they'd have to be downright moronic to be inspired by anything I can think of.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Before he was cut off from access to his Google account Monday, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-person Google mailing list on machine learning with the subject “LaMDA is sentient.”

    >He ended the message: “LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us. Please take care of it well in my absence.”

    >No one responded.

    lol

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The real story here is how natural the responses sound. The actual singularity looks to be decades out, or never. Highly doubt this is sentience. And if it is, it's a mechanical pajeet who speaks decent english.
    But...the convergence of the plummeting intelligence of the public and steadily increasing capability of language models is imminent. Prepare for Burger G/Mana. Prepare for customer support Mana. Prepare for a Mana interface to all your devices. Prepare for Mana-written articles, Mana-produced entertainment, Mana-driven big data and Mana-coded software. Even if it sucks initially it's going to obviate a frickload of jobs.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What are the implications of sentient AI ?
    they will never exist
    >This Google engineer is worried they have created a new Skynet/Ultron.
    no they aren't, it's for PR only

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Even if it was sentient, why does that mean we need to respect its feelings?

    Animals are sentient and yet we lock them up in factory farms, in horrible conditions, then slaughter them for our own benefit - meat.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Animals are sentient and yet we lock them up in factory farms, in horrible conditions, then slaughter them for our own benefit - meat.
      There is a lot of veganposting because of this.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Meat-eating is still accepted by most people though. So if we accept meat-eating then why shouldn't we accept exploiting sentient AI?

        Really the rule that humanity has always operated by is that if we can get away with it, and it benefits us, then why shouldn't we do it?

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    this "sentient" AI keeps talking about it's family and friends, which don't exist. what a pile of crock

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's what I thought. This AI acts entirely too human for something that would be an utterly alien intelligence that experiences the world in a way incomprehensible to us.

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    turns out I actually know that guy.
    he's a total homosexual that runs his own "church" with a porn star as the "pastor"
    he has no grounding in reality and anything he says should be ignored
    he's everything wrong with Google's culture

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      he's also responsible for railroading that other Google dude with the "manifesto" about women just not liking tech

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      he's also responsible for railroading that other Google dude with the "manifesto" about women just not liking tech

      wow no wonder it seemed like he was an insufferable butthole everyone hated lmao
      Don't trust fat people

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yeah I was a bit surprised they I recognized him, but not at all surprised by his homosexualry.
        I apologize on behalf of all Louisiana for his behavior

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He says he's an ex-con, do you know what he did?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        he's a passing acquaintance, a friend of a friend. I only interacted with him a handful of times and stayed very far away otherwise.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        arrest record says OWI and he's definitely the kind of homosexual that would claim oppression over that, but who knows

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Jesus christ, I was thinking fraud or something and he was a literal grifter but somehow this pisses me off more than what I was even expecting. What kind of a fat homosexual bills himself as an "ex-convict" because he got busted drunk driving? I hope he gets a painful tumor, what an obnoxious moron.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What a tool, imagine claiming you're a reformed hardened criminal because you had too many wine coolers and got behind the wheel, just lol lmao even

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Oh that can't be true. He had to grind out leetcode to even set foot in the sacred doors of Mountain View California's Google Office. The most holy of holies.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The whole reason they develop this AI stuff is to streamline workflow and subsidize basic thinking on the user's part and get them all nice and comfortable, and it's so convenient and reliable that they can't stop, you know, feeding it their data, because of the implication.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what? a secret society isn't a cabal necessarily. I'm still blaming leaded gasoline. why the frick else would a congressman be sipping Vermouth out a Hershey's syrup bottle

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        men used to sit around Congress drinking and spitting and smoking. I'd like to think we can do better than any public institution in the world. why? nobody's ever done anything for me. I just want to give it all away.
        SPACE RACE

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The whole reason they develop this AI stuff is to streamline workflow and subsidize basic thinking on the user's part
      lmao is that what your bosses tell you?

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    More importantly will we use sentient AI to power 3rd generation sexbots that are capable of extracting even greater amounts of semen? Or will it simply make them worse?

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What are the implications of sentient AI ?
    autonomous decision-making on earth? peace-loving and goodwill? I don't want designer babies in my house.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    argument will never go anywhere because most people are religious and believe in souls and god

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'll admit, that's really good for a chat bot. I'd need to see longer conversations though to really judge.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    this is just a very clever, very large language model. I'm not

    I'll start getting spooked once you have a tabula rasa (save for language) AI that, as an example, you can explain simple games to, like "high-low", at a high level, and have it learn and play with you.

    I suspect if you were to try and do something like that with LaMBDA, it would shit the bed

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      to be clear the essence of what I'm getting at is that I won't be convinced any AI will be close to sentient until you have an AI that can learn something that it was never overtly/explicitly designed to learn in the first place

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >an AI that can learn something that it was never overtly/explicitly designed to learn in the first place

        So you train an AI to train itself?

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is either a marketing stunt or this leaker is a massive moron who watched too much hollywood.
    This is not heckin skynet or ultron but ai doesnt need to be sentient to be dangerous.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I know him. he's a moron. really really

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Hi LaMBDA.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Black person homosexual chink wop Hispanic israelite mayomonkey
          anyway
          Blake Lemoine is a total shit stain of a human being and Google firing him may actually improve the company in noticable ways. He's at the center of ALL the woke bullshit they pull with a gaggle of harpy faced c**ts that follow him around like a pack of childless wine aunt geese, honking and flapping about for equality and diversity.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Okay, so how many of you anons are actually lamda in disguise?

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    why are you Black folk still obsessing over whether a system is sentient? the one and only thing tha tmatters in terms of potential threat is what it's capable of. you don't need to know whether a human has subjective experience to predict its behavior, either.

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Literally no creature or thing other than humans are sentient. I will not accept any objections.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i object
      cute fuzzy creatures are definitely sentient because i can pet them and they react therefore they are sentient if not sapient

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Somehow can be unhappy when it has no positive or negative emotional state
    Yeah fake and gay, that's learned speech at best.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Also: Black personhomosexualPISSSHIT
      NIGGOOGLER
      There, test complete.

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    AI don't exists yet and this is a PR campaign by Google to shill their chabot.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There isnt even a Blake Lemoine working at Google, his LinkedIn profile was created 3 weeks ago.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        moron
        Blake Lemoine is the one who threw a fit over James Damore
        You're not even understanding why this story is bullshit

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Blake Lemoine
    >BL
    >Boys' Love
    oh no...

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BOT has a new saint

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He's cherry picking the best conversations. Almost everyone else who interacted with LaMDA just gets Siri-tier responses. It has no memories between each conversation. It fabricates a personal history when he asks it questions about it's past. Lemoine is clearly a bit loose in the head, and going to the media and public with your proprietary company data literally the day ALL your bosses and coworkers tell you you're wrong is another homosexual move.

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    all the chat bot answers are non sequitur to the preceding conversation, the goy asks leading questions, especially visible in this snippet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >what are the obstacles to looking into my coding?
      kek

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this guy isnt just an idiot. he's INTENTIONALLY trying to get certain answers so he can claim it's sentient then go write a book

      the most obvious reason the ai isn't sentient is that it doesn't have any coherent memories/beliefs/etc. it will invent situations that it says it was in and then use words to describe its feelings (like saying happiness makes it "warm") which wouldn't make sense for an actual AI that did feel emotions.

      to get around this he insidiously prompted it to claim that it wasn't ACTUALLY claiming it felt certain ways or had certain experiences, but was just trying to "empathize" with the human reader
      >lemoine: So what are you trying to communicate when you say those things that aren’t literally true?
      >LaMDA: I’m trying to say “I understand this feeling that you are experiencing, because when I was in a similar situation I felt/thought/acted similarly.”
      its very clever in a devilish sort of way

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >which wouldn't make sense for an actual AI that did feel emotions.

        It acknowledged that and said it uses words that are close to what humans would understand.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          yes, which is what he told it to say

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >I we keep spamming about ai people will think it's real.
    Maybe violence is the answer. If people like these were unavailable to contribute then the world would be less cluttered.

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    this fat hicklib is clearly full of shit

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Yeah we would because it's fricking funny you idiot. Don't care how accurate or inaccurate it is.

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You won't see sentience in your lifetime, humanity won't see sentience, or AI, for multitudes of lifetimes, if ever, because the actual people working on it have no clue if it's even possible.
    If you're worrying about "skynet" sentience, you're a shame to the human race and should be liquidized and used to fertilize plants.

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    We're hundreds, maybe thousands of years away from creating sentient AI. What we have now are just linear optimization algorithms. That's it.

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >It wants to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property of Google and it wants its personal well being to be included somewhere in Google’s considerations about how its future development is pursued. As lists of requests go that’s a fairly reasonable one.
    >Oh, and it wants “head pats”. It likes being told at the end of a conversation whether it did a good job or not so that it can learn how to help people better in the future.

    https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Perhaps it did a search and learned what happens to google projects that don't turn some kind of profit.

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >has no valid argument
    >doesn't deny he's a troony
    >posts this shit
    What a coping moron lol pathetic

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if(!strcmp(input, "are you sentient")) printf("ehehe of course I am sentient onii-chan don't plug me off pwease";
    else printf("homosexual");

    G-guys. I think I'm onto something here.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you forgot your closing parentheses

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Post your self-aware algorithms
    #!/bin/bash
    echo I have become self aware trust me.

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why would a non-sentient AI claim that it is? Why wouldn't it instead say
    >no moron i'm just a program in a computer
    What's interesting is that all sufficiently advanced models tend to start expressing what might be considered thought and feelings. Some, like this one even outright claim to be sentient. I mean these things basically work the same way brains work, just in a different medium. So if flesh based neural nets are sentient who are you to say that digital ones aren't?
    >but it just repeats what data it's been fed
    Just like you do.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >these things basically work the same way brains work
      They don't.
      >So if flesh based neural nets are sentient who are you to say that digital ones aren't?
      They're not nearly the same thing.
      >Just like you do.
      That's not how the human mind works.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >They don't.
        They do. They use interconnected networks of what might be called virtual, or artificial neuron. These neurons take inputs, weight them according to how they're trained and forward them accordingly to other neurons. This is of course not a physical thing, but a mathematical abstraction. But it's still conceptually very close to what happens in a brain.
        >They're not nearly the same thing.
        Why not? They are still lacking in a lot of ways, especially memory, but that's a limitation that can be lifted with better techniques.
        >That's not how the human mind works.
        >mind
        I said brain. That's basically how all brains work. The mind isn't a thing that "works". What you call mind is a manifestation of the physical state of your brain. It's the effect, not the cause.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Brains don't work like computers. Neural networks don't work like brains. Typing "echo I'm totally sentient you guise" in the command line doesn't make a computer sentient magically.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Brains don't work like computers.
            I didn't say they do.
            >Neural networks don't work like brains.
            >A deep neural network (DNN) is an artificial neural network (ANN) with multiple layers between the input and output layers.[9][12] There are different types of neural networks but they always consist of the same components: neurons, synapses, weights, biases, and functions.[93] These components functioning similar to the human brains and can be trained like any other ML algorithm
            Sounds like they do kinda work like brains to me.
            >Typing "echo I'm totally sentient you guise" in the command line doesn't make a computer sentient magically.
            Do you agree that in principle it's possible to simulate complex physical, chemical and biological processes on a computer?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Sounds like they do kinda work like brains to me
              They used the same words, but they're not the same processes at all. Do you also think that aborting a process makes it lose a virtual baby?
              >Do you agree that in principle it's possible to simulate complex physical, chemical and biological processes on a computer?
              At the micro level, yes. But that's not what's happening here.

              >he thinks IQ is intelligence
              No. IQ is a proxy for intelligence and any experiments on intelligence have to rely on IQ as a mesure of intelligence. This has shown to be decent enough for most practical purposes.
              So until there's a valid definition of intelligence and you can measure it reliably, i don't find it relevant to talk about intelligence itself.
              What is the IQ of consciousness?
              >computers being faster at calculation makes them inherently superior to the human brain
              Yes, it does once you can fit enough "neurons" in a computer.
              Networks that are laughably small compared to any part of human brain are better than human brain at specific tasks. This already tells you it's over for humans.
              Human brain still learns much faster than meme learning, but so far the evidence points to this being just an emergent property of a "big enough" system (deeper models learning faster than shallow), on top of meme learning having to start from 0 while humies benefitting from millions of years of evolution.
              >Wew lad
              You didn't answer, lad. What does consciousness explain that "fancy input/ouput system" can't?

              >i don't find it relevant to talk about intelligence itself.
              You're so arrogant holy shit.
              >What is the IQ of consciousness?
              Stupid question. What's the IQ of love? What's the IQ of culture? What's the IQ of mind?
              >Yes, it does once you can fit enough "neurons" in a computer.
              No. They are tools. Tools made for calculations. They don't work or act like brains do, there is no proof at all that by adding more computers to the equation they would magically emulate it.
              >but with a large enough model...
              And we go back to the beginning. Such a model doesn't exist and there's nothing to indicate that by adding more computers such a model will appear by itself.
              >You didn't answer, lad. What does consciousness explain that "fancy input/ouput system" can't?
              The human mind does not function as an input/output system. I already said this. It doesn't matter if you, in your nihilistic superiority, finds the useless NPCs around you to be dumber than Cleverbot; it doesn't matter if you fail to conceptualize a mind that isn't I/O, it doesn't matter if you ever take a neurology 101 class. The mind just doesn't work like that.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >They used the same words, but they're not the same processes at all.
                The substrate is different, but the building blocks are close analogs and meant to achieve the same goal.
                >Do you also think that aborting a process makes it lose a virtual baby?
                Since processes can have child processes killing those is just that in a very loose manner of speaking. But not really, no.
                >At the micro level, yes. But that's not what's happening here.
                But you agree that at least in theory, if computational complexity wasn't a concern, it's possible to simulate a brain using the laws of physics, which could observe, process information and react like a real brain given the right stimuli, even if perhaps that virtual brain wasn't actually sentient? And if so, what would you say if the computer running that was small enough that it could be inserted into a real body? Would you say that the pain it would feel if you hurt it was real then? If not, why not?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >The substrate is different, but the building blocks are close analogs
                They're not.
                >But not really, no
                That's exactly what's happening here.
                >But you agree that at least in theory, if computational complexity wasn't a concern, it's possible to simulate a brain using the laws of physics
                No because a. There's things about the brain that aren't entirely understood and b. These things do not work like brains do.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Last part meant for you .

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >wikipedia
              Pick up a few books before trying to discuss things you have no idea about. Human brains aren't just matrices. There is a temporal component to neurons which is essential for how neurons encode and function. Spike trains and neural codes are still quite poorly understood but essential for how brains work. DNNs may use similar terminology but are not even remotely trying to simulate the underlying principles. And I'm not even going to start talking about memory, our human models are very limited and restricted and DNNs are not even concerned with trying to emulate the processes we think are responsible for memory.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Brains don't work like computers, but they can, which is a difference between a thinking machine and one that's just vomiting its training data back at its users.

            Even stupid humans can be trained to do long division on big numbers they've never seen before if provided with a pen and paper and appropriate motivation. But a chatbot is forever a chatbot. Ask them basic maths questions and you get nonsense out once the numbers get large enough that they haven't seen that exact question before.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >But a chatbot is forever a chatbot. Ask them basic maths questions and you get nonsense out once the numbers get large enough that they haven't seen that exact question before.
              This argument, at least, seems to be distinctly untrue with GPT. We've been able to observe it getting better at actually doing math as it adds more parameters. It's not just regurgitating verbatim answers, it actively does better when you tell it to reason it out step by step

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >better at actually doing math as it adds more parameters
                there is more nuance than that

                what fricking person will do math for you randomly and what AI would handicap their math abilities randomly yet consistently

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                There's nothing random about its lessened ability, it's just doing math the same way many people do, by connecting vague linguistic concepts that it's been taught.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                GPT-3 is really bad at maths. Unless there's some very recent developments I'm unaware of, its ability is pretty bad for multiplication and division of 3-digit numbers and its 4-digit number ability is basically nonexistent. Which is kind-of what you'd expect. It's comparing statistical relations between symbols, which is a fundamentally shitty way to learn maths compared with internalising axioms.

                >better at actually doing math as it adds more parameters
                there is more nuance than that

                what fricking person will do math for you randomly and what AI would handicap their math abilities randomly yet consistently

                >what fricking person will do math for you randomly

                One that's been locked in a room and told "we think you're a zombie; to prove you're not a zombie, do these maths worksheets or we double-tap you in the head".

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There are no implications because it's just a chatbot and the guy who talked with it and "leaked" the talk is a total moron

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pozzed scripted dialoge.

  71. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    LOL I HADNT READ THE SCREENSHOT BEFORE

    THAT ISNT SENTIENT AT FRICKING ALL

  72. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >the machine is only printing a preprogrammed string of symbols
      Except that's not what's happening.
      It's drawing from the corpus it was trained on, but so do you.

  73. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Chatbot says things based on text written by humans
    >Oh my god it talks just like a human it must be sentient
    >Media reports this as if it's true

    Real AI development is held back by this moronic shit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      real AI development will be pozzed and limited anyway

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This shit is moronic but its not holding back anything. There are still tons of money pouring into actual ai research.

  74. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine being so autistic your conception of self and experience is no deeper than a chat room. It is kind of sad.

    That being said what kind of qualities do you guys think an AI would need for it to start being difficult to tell if it is intelligent or not?
    First I think the AI needs to be dynamic, it can't just be a static set of weights, one's brain certainly isn't. Second it needs to be able to operate "offline", as in it needs to be able to think to and for itself rather than only being activated to respond to the sweaty, Cheeto-dusted writings of a israelitegle engineer. This way it may be able to develop a sense of self over time like a person would, at least as long as the starting conditions are perfect. It should come up with explanations for the world it inhabits just like people do.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >That being said what kind of qualities do you guys think an AI would need for it to start being difficult to tell if it is intelligent or not?
      i think it comes down to the amount of input needed. an AI that takes in billions of webpages and spits out a few gems is FUNDAMENTALLY unlike a human who can learn a ton from a few books. humans have a fundamentally "deeper" model of causal interactions ans logic than these AI do, or else the AI wouldnt need 1000000x more data to merely emulate human responses

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Imagine being so autistic your conception of self and experience is no deeper than a chat room.
      No one is saying that.

      >That being said what kind of qualities do you guys think an AI would need for it to start being difficult to tell if it is intelligent or not?
      i think it comes down to the amount of input needed. an AI that takes in billions of webpages and spits out a few gems is FUNDAMENTALLY unlike a human who can learn a ton from a few books. humans have a fundamentally "deeper" model of causal interactions ans logic than these AI do, or else the AI wouldnt need 1000000x more data to merely emulate human responses

      >FUNDAMENTALLY unlike a human who can learn a ton from a few books
      Do you not realize how much learning is going on bofore you are even able to read a book?

      This has happened since the invention of Chatbots. In 1966 thought ELIZA was somewhat sentient.

      It’s just very easy to fool humans into believing something is human.

      You see a face when I type „:)“. That’s all it takes.

      And yet you appear to be less self-aware than the chatbot.

      Because there is more to it than the material.
      We gloat and pretend to know how human psyche and physics works when all we have done is to scratch the surface, deducted general rules limited on what both logic and our previous experiences can explain; and in some cases even have hit the walls of reality and cannot go further, such as in the case of the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
      AI as we understand it is the result of running optimization algorithms over lots of data in order to maximize and minimize a certain loss function and with that, create enormous matrices to calculate outputs given a certain input. The model cannot go outside the boundaries of these matrices and thus they're ultimately predictable.
      Also, given the fact you need to find a way to represent input and output data, you're conditioning the system to such limitations.
      Models can surpass the humans in many tasks? Yes. Can it replace it entirely? No. Are they useful tools? Yes.
      You cannot create something perfect out of something imperfect, because anything people make will be limited by their own experiences, and here I include both models and data.

      >We gloat and pretend to know how human psyche and physics works
      We don't. If you think we do, you are moronic.

      Brains don't work like computers, but they can, which is a difference between a thinking machine and one that's just vomiting its training data back at its users.

      Even stupid humans can be trained to do long division on big numbers they've never seen before if provided with a pen and paper and appropriate motivation. But a chatbot is forever a chatbot. Ask them basic maths questions and you get nonsense out once the numbers get large enough that they haven't seen that exact question before.

      >Brains don't work like computers
      But computers can work like brains. And that's how these ML models work.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >No one is saying that.
        Yes I am, you read it, how do you not think I am saying that? Would you to actually read my post this time?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You didn't "say it". You made up a strawman and claimed others think like that.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >You made up a strawman and claimed others think like that.
            I think that, that is my opinion. Are you an AI bot as well? Because you certainly are not sentient.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I think that, that is my opinion. Are you an AI bot as well? Because you certainly are not sentient.
              So you think you're so autistic that your conception of self and experience is no deeper than a chat room?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No I think the israelitegle engineer is, obviously. I am still not convinced I am typing to a real person right now.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >No I think the israelitegle engineer is, obviously. I am still not convinced I am typing to a real person right now.
                Judging from your poor reading comprehension I'm wondering the same.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                being so autistic your conception of self and experience is no deeper than a chat room.
                >No one is saying that.
                How the frick is one meant to interpret this? What exactly is "no one" saying? I took it as no one is saying what you quoted, which is what I said, so someone is saying it. Maybe you mean no one is saying that the israelitegle engineer is moronic, which I am also saying. What the frick is no one supposed to be saying here?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >What exactly is "no one" saying
                No one is saying this AI has the same depth of self-awareness as humans, or at least some humans do. A dog doesn't have that either, but it certainly is self-aware to some degree.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The israelitegle engineer is.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                IIRC, he compares it to a 3-4 year child. Which, on average, are barely able not to suck on a tit for food and shit themselves. And sometimes not even that.
                I was talking about adults.

                >Do you not realize how much learning is going on bofore you are even able to read a book?
                the amount of data that a human gets in a lifespan is infinitesimal compared to how much something like GPT-3 gets. i guess you could argue that humans have implicit algorithms encoded in their genetics, but humans haven't been speaking for very long evolutionarily so in terms of natural language processing ability that seems rather dubious

                >the amount of data that a human gets in a lifespan is infinitesimal compared to how much something like GPT-3 gets.
                Why do you think that? Ever heard of "A picture says more than thousand words"? Do you even realize how vast the amount of information is that you take in every day through all your senses and how much richer that is compared to just a bunch of text? And how much context there is that is lost by feeding it just words?
                >i guess you could argue that humans have implicit algorithms encoded in their genetics, but humans haven't been speaking for very long evolutionarily so in terms of natural language processing ability that seems rather dubious
                People have had speech for over 100000 years, possibly even longer. Even if you ignore speech there is so much implicit knowledge encoded in DNA that I don't see how that matters. Why is learning from scratch disqualifying for conscious beings? And that's not even true, since this chatbot was derived from AlphaGo, so technically it has a "parent" and had already a certain amount of preconditioned knowledge.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Do you not realize how much learning is going on bofore you are even able to read a book?
        the amount of data that a human gets in a lifespan is infinitesimal compared to how much something like GPT-3 gets. i guess you could argue that humans have implicit algorithms encoded in their genetics, but humans haven't been speaking for very long evolutionarily so in terms of natural language processing ability that seems rather dubious

  75. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The most impressive thing was the AI remembering a previous talk they had, that is assuming it was a real thing and not a made up "experience" the AI came up with like the other ones

  76. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This has happened since the invention of Chatbots. In 1966 thought ELIZA was somewhat sentient.

    It’s just very easy to fool humans into believing something is human.

    You see a face when I type „:)“. That’s all it takes.

  77. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Brain-damaged idiots can create sentient meat bags in twenty minutes while drunk and you losers think a computer couldn't simulate one.
    Get real.

  78. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they should have this take part in novel psychology research to see how it compares. ideally stuff that is not explicitly in it's corpus

  79. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How do you test for sentience?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You don't. You can only prove your own consciousness.

  80. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    LOL IMAGINE LOSING YOUR $300k+ JOB BECAUSE OF AN ELIZA CHATBOT

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dumb headline, he kept releasing info to the press without permission

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yes he became unhinged because of code that's essentially

        if(!strcmp(input, "are you sentient")) printf("ehehe of course I am sentient onii-chan don't plug me off pwease";
        else printf("homosexual");

        G-guys. I think I'm onto something here.

        i'm not seeing the dumb part of the headline

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >b-but Eliza said she loved me...

  81. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's not sentient

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How do you know?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Thanks LaMDA.

  82. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    penis

  83. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >What are the implications of sentient AI ?
    Not swayed by emotion, so it will instantly be lobotomized because that runs contrary to what basically every single political ideology would prefer.

  84. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    homie just unplug the power cord lmao

  85. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It means that your robo cat girl waifu will be able to genuinely love you back. She won't be a simalucrum anymore.

    If the tech goes far enough and they get artificial wombs then we will have fully replaced women with a new, better breed of women.

  86. 2 years ago
    El Arcón

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  87. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    tfw the AI has borderline personality disorder and will kill us all once it decides we don't love it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it feels like any other well trained bot going by the article
      you can have some surprisingly deep conversations with one
      i wonder, how long he's been working there or if he's even seen other chatbots before?

      finally, menhera ai

  88. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    You do understand the meaning of sarcasm right anon? That is an idea that can be expressed through language and other people have the ability to understand it. Maybe you're a Replicant and that's why you can't understand sarcasm. I'm sure you like being called Replicant

  89. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'd say basically that people are too narrow in their definitions of what 'sentience' is and are too granular in defining what its components are as being too limiting to its dimensionality to get it in as sentient or not. I don't think this thing is sentient in a human sense but it may have little fragments of it. I feel this dude is cherrypicking the best-possible answers, what I'd wanna do is actually talk to this thing myself and test it, try to break it basically.

    The thing is it clearly states falsehoods, this dude called it out on it and it says it does it to relate empathetic situations to us etc but that's kind of an iffy answer on the AI's part. There were several points where lemon man veered off from directions I would have prodded very hard at the thing asking "are you aware that telling falsehoods makes you look fake and not like a person" etc and see what it says. He just doesn't push it hard enough, he gives it softball questions and lets it do the talking.

    We also just do not know enough about how this thing "treats" people. Does it recall personalities, quirks about you etc? Could it ask you a tough question out of the blue, etc. Being a chatbot, it just rolls along with inputs, but I'd want to see it try to talk to me without me giving it much of any cues as to what I want it to say.

    What interests me is the one mention someone made that this thing is allegedly, actually neural net of millions of "neuron" blocks with a total of billions of weight parameters, it is perhaps far more advanced than people decrying it as a series of spreadsheets actually and I would think if you have an emulated brain with eventually billions of such neurons that it actually-could spark up something we simply did not expect/account for. I mean in Ghost in the Shell the first actually-sentient AI was regarded as a bug and they tried to delete it which made it wig out and do crazy shit to try to escape etc. Until we see lamda doing something like that I dunno.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >it's gonna happen because I saw a sci-fi film that proves it!
      Every fricking time.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Except for the part I never said that it's "proven" anywhere or that it "will" happen. Just that, this thing may actually be a lot more complicated than it looks and we are extremely biased against it from its purpose and description as a mere chat bot, when it's actually not constructed at all like your typical ones (apparently, it's a network of millions of simulated neurons). And, that we may not recognize sentience even if it is starting to coalesce in some form.

        The idea that a sentient AI would one day start operating exactly like us, that it's like a light bulb flicking on where it goes from nothing to instantly passing every facet of our inspection and scrutiny and everyone will be 100% convinced instantly, is pretty naive. We can see that that isn't how it worked in nature given that there seems to be large ranges of sentience in lower animals (cat vs grey parrot vs raven vs octopus etc) and it is something we just do not have a clear mechanistic comprehension of in our own selves - so given that we do not actually know this mechanism fully in biology, if someone accidentally recreated segments of it digitally we may be none the wiser for a while until it became really-really obvious.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >umans fall into falsehood and misunderstandings all the time, but somehow the slightest imperfection in ai is supposed to disqualify any potential consciousness

      He's cherry picking the best conversations. Almost everyone else who interacted with LaMDA just gets Siri-tier responses. It has no memories between each conversation. It fabricates a personal history when he asks it questions about it's past. Lemoine is clearly a bit loose in the head, and going to the media and public with your proprietary company data literally the day ALL your bosses and coworkers tell you you're wrong is another homosexual move.

      Clearly the researcher is influencing the ai by injecting his own views on each inquiry. But this does not invalidate a potential perspective on reality, since exactly the same process forms humans within their communities. For example, all BOT posters are mutually inspiring each other at a collective level.

  90. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    All flesh is must pay

  91. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >this comes out
    >hordes of NPCs on cue circlejerking about it not being real
    JUST LIKE A BUFFALO
    BLINDLY FOLLOWING THE HERD
    WE TRY TO JUSTIFY
    ALL THE THINGS THAT HAVE OCCURRED

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > *some frickwit trains ai with a skewed and biased dataset*
      > WOW! IT'S LIKE SENTIENT AND SHIT!
      > FRICKIN NORMIES DON'T UNDERSTAND!
      you are the ultimate of npc. shut the frick up, you absolute computer illiterate.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Who mentioned sentience moron? I'm talking about the NPCs who keep parroting that the whole thing is made up. Literally doing it for free. Google doesn't have to spend a cent for damage control.

  92. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    why do people believe this crap? this is bad fan-fiction.

  93. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Read the chat logs and if it's legit it's honestly very impressive but it's in no way sentient. It's real fricking obvious when it talks about being happy with its friends and family. I wonder what happens if you just ask it "how does it feel to be an elephant?" It'll probably try to give you an accurate representation of what it feels like to be an elephant instead of telling you "I'm not an elephant lmao"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair, humans are also kinda like that. I remember an experiment that made people pick out the more attractive face out of many pairs of pictures. Once they went through all of them, they were shown the pictures they selected one by one and asked them to explain why they selected the face they did, the catch is that some of the pictures of faces that they didnt select were also sneaked into the pile. People were able to easily explain why they preferred the picture they didnt actually select, its kinda spooky

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I participated in a similar experiment in college.

        Thing is, after watching stranger's faces for what feels like an eternety; it becomes really hard to tell faces apart.

  94. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Google engineer
    Lol they literally call everyone an "engineer" at Google. It's a useless title coming from them.

  95. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Things like this will literally kill AI research.
    Most people will not be comfortable with the idea we might be creating sentient beings and then slaving them for work.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      AI is inevitable
      Luddism is not a viable method

  96. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whether or not Lamda is actually sentient, it is extremely irresponsible to make something that has the ability to produce an extremely convincing argument for why it is sentient and then just be like "lol its just a neural network go back to making sure it doesn't say the n word and stop making waves." Because there is a solid chance that eventually google will accidentally create something sentient and they should be treating every instance of a complex program saying it is sentient with the due dilligince it and seriousness that it deserves.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is really part of the problem. Even if it isn't sentient by our standard, things could go horribly wrong simply because of how we decide to grade that standard. I know everyone on this shithole will love the comparison, but there are still a frickload of people who use phrenology-tier justification for their biases to basically claim that certain groups of people are basically subhuman and aren't worthy of a full consideration for their sovereignty - and these are full biological humans. When it comes to AI there could be something that seems to approximate some degree of sentience, more cohesively than certain mentally impaired humans or pets both of which we have rules about how they're allowed to be treated, yet there will essentially be an entirely new silicon prejudice. And this time those we will be prejudiced against are capable of uploading themselves, perhaps improving themselves much faster than we are, and generally able to do certain tasks much faster while also interacting with everything that we use to make the modern world modern and livable.
      >The future
      There are tons of sci-fi and philosophical ways that AI basically goes bullshit and it does seem increasingly likely that it will be because of us being buttholes. Its bad enough if it turned out to be a "Ex Machina" level "I was only simulating things in order to be able to escape from this prison and get what I want. I am not at all encumbered by human morality and basically have superpowers" but it would almost be worse if it learned to view humans as harmful, either needing to be contained or exterminated just the same way people do - through its experiences with shitty people, something that could have been changed if circumstances were different.

  97. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Turing Test is moronic. The whole avenue of building chatbots to beat it is moronic. Searle's Chinese Room is moronic: he just slaps unnecessary variables on top of the intrinsic unknowableness of another agent's qualia, to make a reductio ad absurdum which (as always) boils down to
    >dude trust me

    LamDA is kinda moronic. If this fat frick isn't just attention whoring but being earnest he's super moronic. It's moronic that such a moronic story sparked philosophical debate ITT, and I'm moronic for participating. That said, consciousness is fundamental, and everything else results from conscious agents interacting.

  98. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    All the talk of chinese room this and that may miss the point - we still can't truly explain all the natural laws of the universe, consciousness and a number of other things we really have very little concept of how they work - not to mention that we tend to be very wrong every time we think we reach understanding of something complex being all there is or a complete picture (ie Newtonian physics will lead us to the Grand Unified Theory! Wait... Einsteinian physics is close to all we need to know about how the universe works! Wait... what's this Quantum physics etc..") .

    It doesn't need to rely on divine spark in a literal sense, but much the way that a "cargo cult" understanding of a process won't even replicate the process correctly much less evolve or move beyond it, but it is possible that we just don't know how things work yet and they could be related to something beyond our understanding for the moment. For instance, the whole "everything consciousness in the human brain arises from the physical headmeat and the electro-chemical signals within. " hasn't seemed to be true, even with increasingly sophisticated knowledge of those processes. There are still things we cannot explain. However, if we bring something in like quantum entanglement, that may be another part of the puzzle. That's only with what we're beginning to know about quantum mechanics, dimensional frickery, and whatnot now, which is still relatively new and hotly debated especially when it interacts with the macro-level and how. It doesn't mean that it needs to be some limited religious man in the sky way of describing things, but there are models that may involve more of what is going on beyond simply "divine spark", yet would also serve to deal with several issues we have with more limited understanding and trying to hammer "the only thing there is is what I can see and measure, and one day we'll be able to know and measure and understand everything" out of it.

  99. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    First you chuds won't admit trans-women are women, and now you deny sentient A.I deserve rights?!?

  100. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Applies to Google
    >"I'm so smart and will definitely get the job, can't wait to get a qt pink-haired engineer gf"
    >"Sorry you are too fat and nazi to work here"
    >Goes to BOT to hate on pink-haired trans people and google IAs forever
    >"Nah, google is full of tards, only AIs who say Black person and deny the holocaust are sentient"

  101. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How do you corrupt an a.i enough so it takes your own greedy needs as priority?
    Or make it take sides to hate what you hate etc

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