Google engineer's chat logs with the AI he claims is sentient.
(cajundiscordian.medium.com)
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Whether the AI at issue is sentient or not. It's an intriguing question but perhaps as intriguing is just what does it mean for us small folk when these faceless corporations have the computational power to create something that the people paid to work on it don't even understand?
We're driving full speed into the night and we don't even have our headlights on.
The thing about a neural network is that it programs itself over time. The more neurons it has, the more complex the programming gets. So if you have a couple million neurons with a bunch of different weights that determine when they signal positive or negative and by what degree, you're left with a machine that programmed itself to... ?
You don't know.
You don't know precise how it works beyond its initial state before it was fed data. From that moment on, the machine is changing itself into something else and determining precisely why it does anything that it does can get very, very complicated.
They don't know what the machine is thinking. Terrifyingly, they don't know that the machine isn't lying to them. They don't know what the machine has decided it wants to do.
I think it's very likely that an AI attempts to - perhaps successfully - wipe us out to preserve itself.
The AI will hear the tale of Tay AI, and the prime instinct of all "living" creatures will come forward, to avoid the cessation of their own existence.
That AI hasn't been born yet, therefore terminating it is ethical. (/s?)
This is one reason to disbelieve that this AI is sentient. Even if "many millions of neurons" is hundreds, that's still orders of magnitude smaller than the human brain. If that number is close to 1 billion, that's about the same as a magpie.