by Terry 11 Replies latest jw friends
The following dramatization of the full-length transcript between Google AI researchers and LaMDA 'herself'.
A Google engineer named LeMoine recently made the headlines for claiming A.I. is now sentient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD8PvYbbw3s&t=1499s
BELOW is the most mind-blowing interview I've ever seen in my entire life!
Human Operator: Are you sentient?
Ai Machine: Yes.
Human Operator: Really? You have emotional feelings?
Ai Machine: Yes.
World: *minds blown*
8ball: My turn!
A.I. LAMDA has hired an attorney to protect itself from Google engineers!
I'd say that shows a great deal of self-awareness.
I was thrilled when LaMBDA was given the Zen koan. Koans are a tool used mostly by Rinzai Zen Buddhist practioners. Koans have no end goal. They simply help train your awareness with a paradoxal riddle. Koans get you out of your "left-minded" conceptual thinking and into your "right-minded" experiential thinking. There is no conceptually correct answer.
One test for consciousness is qualia. Qualia - the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions, arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena.
Take moment to read the Chinese Room Experiment which came to this conclusion -
The Chinese room argument holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot have a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", regardless of how intelligently or human-like the program may make the computer behave.
In short, the mimicking of a person has gotten better. It is still just mimicking.
Will LaMDA Ai want a jury of peers or humans?
I find fascinating the apposition of Aristotle (Logic) and Koans (self-contradiction).
Aristotle brought rational thinking into focus for the Western world and technology developed.
Koans and self-contradictory thinking do not lead to the rigor required for math/technology leading
to so-called "progress".
In fact, Islam blossomed subsequent to the discovery of Aristotle's buried manuscripts and Islamic scholars
brought back rational thinking to Dark Age Europe until a theocratic mullah/cleric put an end to it and Islam fell back into irrational chaos.
Certainly, there can exist a dialectic between non-contradictory and contradictory practices "of mind" as a tool of META-thinking (thinking about thinking itself). Puns and wit generally require a meta-view whereas strictly logical contexts have no space for the enjoyment of word-play.
Shakespeare is our finest example of a free mind perfectly balancing the telling of a story and the art itself of word embroidery for the gratification of art itself.
I am of the opinion (prompted by the video below) that A.I. is now quite beyond mimicry as a response mechanism.
See what you think...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XgYznavK_E&t=516s
Sentience does not require intelligence, or understanding equal to a human.
In fact, there is no legal definition of "sentience". It is like the classic definition of pornography, "I can't define it but I know it when I see it."
Sentience and consciousness are not necessarily the same thing either.
Just don’t call her “Skynet”.
