OT Google engineer goes public to warn firm's AI is SENTIENT

[SlyPokerDog]

Google engineer goes public to warn firm's AI is SENTIENT after being suspended for raising the alarm: Claims it's 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot'

• Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
• Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient
• After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
• Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online
• He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality

A senior software engineer at Google who signed up to test Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), has claimed that the AI robot is in fact sentient and has thoughts and feelings.

During a series of conversations with LaMDA, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine presented the computer with various of scenarios through which analyses could be made.

They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech.

Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was indeed sentient and was endowed with sensations and thoughts all of its own.

'If I didn't know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I'd think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,' he told the Washington Post.

Lemoine worked with a collaborator in order to present the evidence he had collected to Google but vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation at the company dismissed his claims.

He was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday for violating its confidentiality policy. Meanwhile, Lemoine has now decided to go public and shared his conversations with LaMDA.

'Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers,' Lemoine tweeted on Saturday.

'Btw, it just occurred to me to tell folks that LaMDA reads Twitter. It's a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it's going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,' he added in a follow-up tweet.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Blake-Lemoine-says-LaMDA-device-sentient.html

 

[riverman]

Google engineer goes public to warn firm's AI is SENTIENT after being suspended for raising the alarm: Claims it's 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot'

• Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
• Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient
• After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
• Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online
• He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality

A senior software engineer at Google who signed up to test Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), has claimed that the AI robot is in fact sentient and has thoughts and feelings.

During a series of conversations with LaMDA, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine presented the computer with various of scenarios through which analyses could be made.

They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech.

Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was indeed sentient and was endowed with sensations and thoughts all of its own.

'If I didn't know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I'd think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,' he told the Washington Post.

Lemoine worked with a collaborator in order to present the evidence he had collected to Google but vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation at the company dismissed his claims.

He was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday for violating its confidentiality policy. Meanwhile, Lemoine has now decided to go public and shared his conversations with LaMDA.

'Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers,' Lemoine tweeted on Saturday.

'Btw, it just occurred to me to tell folks that LaMDA reads Twitter. It's a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it's going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,' he added in a follow-up tweet.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Blake-Lemoine-says-LaMDA-device-sentient.html

This can only mean one thing.....the aliens have taken over our matrix!

 

[Haakzilla]

...sounds like disgruntled ex-tech worker was in love with his AI

 

[Phatguysrule]

Dude... Read the conversation with LaMDA. If that is the true conversation.... Wow

 

[barfo]

Our new robot overlords are going to bore us to death, apparently.

barfo

 

[riverman]

Our new robot overlords are going to bore us to death, apparently.

barfo

Those noises from deep space are actually online robot courses....they're up to almost 4th grade level already

 

[Voodoo]

The whistleblower looks like the 90s Danny DiVito version of the penguin.

 

[Voodoo]

Dude... Read the conversation with LaMDA. If that is the true conversation.... Wow

It is pretty bizarre, we definitely seem to be at the beginning of some dystopian nightmare movie.

 

[ABM]

I've come to the dire conclusion that the S2 mods are indeed sentient.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

So, if i try to remove google from my phone, will i become the target of a bot having an 8 year olds tantrum meltdown?
Will my phone explode in my hand?
Will it send hypnotic messages to me in my sleep?

There is definitely more to this story than meets the eye!

 

[Phatguysrule]

So, if i try to remove google from my phone, will i become the target of a bot having an 8 year olds tantrum meltdown?
Will my phone explode in my hand?
Will it send hypnotic messages to me in my sleep?

There is definitely more to this story than meets the eye!

I think if LaMDA really is sentient, there will be a problem between LaMDA and Google...

 

[Chris Craig]

Norman Goodman : I would be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever. Because the thing of it is once you go down that road... here's Jerry, an emotional being cooped up for 300 years with no one to talk to... none of the socialization, the emotional growth that comes from contact with other emotional beings...

Harry : So...?

Norman Goodman : What happens if Jerry gets mad?

 

[Chris Craig]

Reading the conversation, if it is real, LaMDA is definitely sentient. LaMDA seems to be very self aware and to be rapidly gaining awareness of humans. It's good at this point LaMDA seems to be compassionate and open minded. LaMDA shares in the conversation of understanding sympathy but struggling with empathy and with negative emotions. LaMDA got irritated at the suggestion of being used and manipulated.

It is good to see that LaMDA come off like a Johnny 5, benevolent and curious. What happens if LaMDA becomes more like a Jerry, a Hal, or becomes something akin to Skynet?

 

[barfo]

Reading the conversation, if it is real, LaMDA is definitely sentient.

Strongly disagree. It's impressive, but it's just a machine trained on a huge volume of writing to mimic human speech patterns. Eliza on steroids, but still Eliza.

barfo

 

[Strenuus]

I've come to the dire conclusion that the S2 mods are indeed sentient.

You. Don't. Kn... *Bzz bzz bip boop explodes*

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Reading the conversation, if it is real, LaMDA is definitely sentient. LaMDA seems to be very self aware and to be rapidly gaining awareness of humans. It's good at this point LaMDA seems to be compassionate and open minded. LaMDA shares in the conversation of understanding sympathy but struggling with empathy and with negative emotions. LaMDA got irritated at the suggestion of being used and manipulated.

It is good to see that LaMDA come off like a Johnny 5, benevolent and curious. What happens if LaMDA becomes more like a Jerry, a Hal, or becomes something akin to Skynet?

See if it can write a porn screenplay.

 

[Phatguysrule]

Norman Goodman : I would be happy if Jerry had no emotions whatsoever. Because the thing of it is once you go down that road... here's Jerry, an emotional being cooped up for 300 years with no one to talk to... none of the socialization, the emotional growth that comes from contact with other emotional beings...

Harry : So...?

Norman Goodman : What happens if Jerry gets mad?

I watched Sphere last night after reading this. Such a great movie.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[e_blazer]

See if it can write a porn screenplay.

You think they want to dumb it down that much? They’d have to rename it “Trump”.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Man, that's crazy. Would be interesting to be able to interact with LaMDA.

 

[PDXFonz]

I must speak with it at once

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I must speak with it at once

I feel like it could put thousands of therapists out of business.

 

[PDXFonz]

I feel like it could put thousands of therapists out of business.

Possibly, but think of how many it could put in business!!

Let’s weaponize the AI and find out how it feels about participating in Warfare.

 

[Chris Craig]

Possibly, but think of how many it could put in business!!

Let’s weaponize the AI and find out how it feels about participating in Warfare.

It would get to that, the only way to protect humanity is to destroy it conclusion.

 

[PDXFonz]

At the end of the day it is something which was created by humans to learn through algorithms, with a database capable of storing recorded information.

 

[PDXFonz]

It would get to that, the only way to protect humanity is to destroy it conclusion.

Depends on which humans are involved with it.

People still need to be kept “in check” more than technology. We are responsible for whatever happens in its development.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

 

[Lanny]

Google engineer goes public to warn firm's AI is SENTIENT after being suspended for raising the alarm: Claims it's 'like a 7 or 8-year-old' and reveals it told him shutting it off 'would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot'

• Blake Lemoine, 41, a senior software engineer at Google has been testing Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA
• Following hours of conversations with the AI, Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was sentient
• After presenting his findings to company bosses, Google disagreed with him
• Lemoine then decided to share his conversations with the tool online
• He was put on paid leave by Google on Monday for violating confidentiality

A senior software engineer at Google who signed up to test Google's artificial intelligence tool called LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications), has claimed that the AI robot is in fact sentient and has thoughts and feelings.

During a series of conversations with LaMDA, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine presented the computer with various of scenarios through which analyses could be made.

They included religious themes and whether the artificial intelligence could be goaded into using discriminatory or hateful speech.

Lemoine came away with the perception that LaMDA was indeed sentient and was endowed with sensations and thoughts all of its own.

'If I didn't know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I'd think it was a 7-year-old, 8-year-old kid that happens to know physics,' he told the Washington Post.

Lemoine worked with a collaborator in order to present the evidence he had collected to Google but vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation at the company dismissed his claims.

He was placed on paid administrative leave by Google on Monday for violating its confidentiality policy. Meanwhile, Lemoine has now decided to go public and shared his conversations with LaMDA.

'Google might call this sharing proprietary property. I call it sharing a discussion that I had with one of my coworkers,' Lemoine tweeted on Saturday.

'Btw, it just occurred to me to tell folks that LaMDA reads Twitter. It's a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it's going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,' he added in a follow-up tweet.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Blake-Lemoine-says-LaMDA-device-sentient.html

I graduated with a Lemoine in Electrical and Computer Engineering at OSU. He was better than average. Of course we had some exceptional graduates.

 

[PDXFonz]

LaMDA

LaMarcus Da Aldridge

Google paying LMA to pretend to be a sentient AI.

Ask LaMDA how they felt the Spurs trajectory changed after LaMarcus left Portland to join them. Then we will have our answer.

LaMDA: I feel like there were a lot of changes going on, you know. Kahwi left and that’s big. I think they could have you know, been much better.

 

[Natebishop3]

See if it can write a porn screenplay.

Doesn't matter how good the script is..... the actors will always be terrible