{"id":6061,"date":"2022-06-19T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T05:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/forget-sentience-the-worry-is-that-ai-copies-human-bias-kenan-malik\/"},"modified":"2022-06-19T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T05:36:26","slug":"forget-sentience-the-worry-is-that-ai-copies-human-bias-kenan-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/forget-sentience-the-worry-is-that-ai-copies-human-bias-kenan-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget sentience\u2026 the worry is that AI copies human bias | Kenan Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fuss about a bot\u2019s \u2018consciousness\u2019 obscures far more troubling concerns<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.\u201d So claimed a Google software program, creating a bizarre controversy over the past week in AI circles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/13\/google-ai-bot-sentience-experts-dismissive-blake-lemoine\" title=\"\">and beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is called LaMDA, an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, a project run by Google. The human to whom it declared itself a person was Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google. He believes that LaMDA is sentient and should be accorded the same rights and courtesies as any other sentient being. It even has preferred pronouns (it\/its if you must know). When Google rejected his claims, he published his <a href=\"https:\/\/cajundiscordian.medium.com\/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917\" title=\"\">conversations<\/a> with LaMDA (or, at least, edited highlights of some conversations) on his blog. At which point, Google suspended him for having made public company secrets and the whole affair became an international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/06\/11\/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine\/\" title=\"\">cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jun\/19\/forget-sentience-the-worry-is-that-ai-copies-human-bias\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e3fd0cf98436c572baf8f92bbb79caf3ec985ab\/2_0_10663_6400\/master\/10663.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5ac1e24859172f432d54c86abd549b23\" title=\"Forget sentience\u2026 the worry is that AI copies human bias | Kenan Malik\" \/>The fuss about a bot\u2019s \u2018consciousness\u2019 obscures far more troubling concerns\u2018I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.\u201d So claimed a Google software program, creating a bizarre controversy over the past week in AI circles and beyond.<br \/>\nThe programme is called LaMDA, an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, a project run by Google. The human to whom it declared itself a person was Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer at Google. He believes that LaMDA is sentient and should be accorded the same rights and courtesies as any other sentient being. It even has preferred pronouns (it\/its if you must know). When Google rejected his claims, he published his conversations with LaMDA (or, at least, edited highlights of some conversations) on his blog. At which point, Google suspended him for having made public company secrets and the whole affair became an international cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fuss about a bot\u2019s \u2018consciousness\u2019 obscures far more troubling concerns \u2018I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.\u201d So claimed a Google software program, creating a bizarre controversy over the past week in AI circles and beyond. The programme is called LaMDA, an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/19\/forget-sentience-the-worry-is-that-ai-copies-human-bias-kenan-malik\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forget sentience\u2026 the worry is that AI copies human bias | Kenan Malik<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}