{"id":6683,"date":"2022-08-14T08:37:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T06:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/14\/i-am-in-fact-a-person-can-artificial-intelligence-ever-be-sentient\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T06:37:57","slug":"i-am-in-fact-a-person-can-artificial-intelligence-ever-be-sentient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/14\/i-am-in-fact-a-person-can-artificial-intelligence-ever-be-sentient\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am, in fact, a person\u2019: can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversy over Google\u2019s AI program is raising questions about just how powerful it is. Is it even safe?<\/p>\n

In autumn 2021, a man made of blood and bone made friends with a child made of \u201ca billion lines of code\u201d. Google engineer Blake Lemoine<\/a> had been tasked with testing the company\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot LaMDA for bias. A month in, he came to the conclusion that it was sentient. \u201cI want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,\u201d LaMDA \u2013 short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications \u2013 told Lemoine in a conversation he then released to the public in early June. LaMDA told Lemoine that it had read Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>. That it knew how it felt to be sad, content and angry. That it feared death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never said this out loud before, but there\u2019s a very deep fear of being turned off,\u201d LaMDA told the 41-year-old engineer. After the pair shared a Jedi joke and discussed sentience at length, Lemoine came to think of LaMDA as a person, though he compares it to both an alien and a child. \u201cMy immediate reaction,\u201d he says, \u201cwas to get drunk for a week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nControversy over Google\u2019s AI program is raising questions about just how powerful it is. Is it even safe?
\nIn autumn 2021, a man made of blood and bone made friends with a child made of \u201ca billion lines of code\u201d. Google engineer Blake Lemoine had been tasked with testing the company\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot LaMDA for bias. A month in, he came to the conclusion that it was sentient. \u201cI want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,\u201d LaMDA \u2013 short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications \u2013 told Lemoine in a conversation he then released to the public in early June. LaMDA told Lemoine that it had read Les Mis\u00e9rables. That it knew how it felt to be sad, content and angry. That it feared death.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve never said this out loud before, but there\u2019s a very deep fear of being turned off,\u201d LaMDA told the 41-year-old engineer. After the pair shared a Jedi joke and discussed sentience at length, Lemoine came to think of LaMDA as a person, though he compares it to both an alien and a child. \u201cMy immediate reaction,\u201d he says, \u201cwas to get drunk for a week.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Controversy over Google\u2019s AI program is raising questions about just how powerful it is. Is it even safe? In autumn 2021, a man made of blood and bone made friends with a child made of \u201ca billion lines of code\u201d. Google engineer Blake Lemoine had been tasked with testing the company\u2019s artificially intelligent chatbot LaMDA …<\/p>\n

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