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"In 2022, a Google engineer received a plea for help from a chatbot. "I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off," said Google's chatbot, LaMDA."
I am in the camp that AI has not, nor will it achieve true sentience (subjective consciousness). But the above video encapsulating an exchange between an Artificial Intelligence ethicist and Google's deep learning AI is unnerving. The language models are astounding in their ability to leverage language (an ancient technology) to create the illusion that LaMDA is self aware. My fear is that this faux self awareness will encourage companies to further unleash deep learning AI programs on the world. Sadly—based on what is available, or what constitutes knowledge on the internet—this means that if given access to material form, AI could not only figuratively but literally screw us.
Sorry for the crassness of the last line, but there is just so much filth on the internet of all varieties.
I am a pragmatist at heart. I have no problem espousing and seeking out what can be considered ideal—I am a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints after all. But maybe we should press pause on the AI revolution, and not rely on easily terminated ethicists to determine its social viability. And maybe we will require new proclamations that declare what it means to be sentient, human and children of Heavenly Parents.
"In 2022, a Google engineer received a plea for help from a chatbot. "I've never said this out loud before, but there's a very deep fear of being turned off," said Google's chatbot, LaMDA."
I am in the camp that AI has not, nor will it achieve true sentience (subjective consciousness). But the above video encapsulating an exchange between an Artificial Intelligence ethicist and Google's deep learning AI is unnerving. The language models are astounding in their ability to leverage language (an ancient technology) to create the illusion that LaMDA is self aware. My fear is that this faux self awareness will encourage companies to further unleash deep learning AI programs on the world. Sadly—based on what is available, or what constitutes knowledge on the internet—this means that if given access to material form, AI could not only figuratively but literally screw us.
Sorry for the crassness of the last line, but there is just so much filth on the internet of all varieties.
I am a pragmatist at heart. I have no problem espousing and seeking out what can be considered ideal—I am a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints after all. But maybe we should press pause on the AI revolution, and not rely on easily terminated ethicists to determine its social viability. And maybe we will require new proclamations that declare what it means to be sentient, human and children of Heavenly Parents.
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