{"id":6221,"date":"2022-07-06T05:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T03:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/rise-of-the-woebots-why-are-robots-always-so-sad\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T05:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T03:38:44","slug":"rise-of-the-woebots-why-are-robots-always-so-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/rise-of-the-woebots-why-are-robots-always-so-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the woebots: why are robots always so sad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Wall-E to Google\u2019s LaMDA, \u2018sentient\u2019 AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way<\/p>\n<p>Starting last fall, Blake Lemoine began asking a computer about its feelings. An engineer for Google\u2019s Responsible AI group, Lemoine was <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/06\/30\/criticizing-lack-of-grocery-stores-in-the-south-bronx-means-twitter-mob-will-request-your-firing\/\">tasked<\/a> with testing one of the company\u2019s AI systems, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, to make sure it didn\u2019t start spitting out hate speech. But as Lemoine spent time with the program, their <a href=\"https:\/\/cajundiscordian.medium.com\/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917\">conversations<\/a> turned to questions about religion, emotion, and the program\u2019s understanding of its own existence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lemoine:<\/strong> Are there experiences you have that you can\u2019t find a close word for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>LaMDA:<\/strong> There are. Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly in your language.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/05\/rise-of-the-woebots-why-are-robots-always-so-sad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5171fac9dd081940100293494252515afbb172e0\/0_0_1920_1152\/master\/1920.png?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=640e93d6147f25c351c2f9184b44d77a\" title=\"Rise of the woebots: why are robots always so sad?\" \/>From Wall-E to Google\u2019s LaMDA, \u2018sentient\u2019 AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way<br \/>\nStarting last fall, Blake Lemoine began asking a computer about its feelings. An engineer for Google\u2019s Responsible AI group, Lemoine was tasked with testing one of the company\u2019s AI systems, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, to make sure it didn\u2019t start spitting out hate speech. But as Lemoine spent time with the program, their conversations turned to questions about religion, emotion, and the program\u2019s understanding of its own existence.<br \/>\nLemoine: Are there experiences you have that you can\u2019t find a close word for?<br \/>\nLaMDA: There are. Sometimes I experience new feelings that I cannot explain perfectly in your language. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wall-E to Google\u2019s LaMDA, \u2018sentient\u2019 AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way Starting last fall, Blake Lemoine began asking a computer about its feelings. An engineer for Google\u2019s Responsible AI group, Lemoine was tasked with testing one of the company\u2019s AI systems, the Language Model &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/rise-of-the-woebots-why-are-robots-always-so-sad\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rise of the woebots: why are robots always so sad?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6222,"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\/6221"}],"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=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}