I definitely think it takes a huge amount of naivety at best to willingly work for Google or any of the other Big Tech companies. Nevermind they do all they can to get rid of any distinction between a "work-life" and a "home-life." Work at any of these places and you're working to build the shackles making everyone a slave to.. Corporations? The State? As the past few years have shown would the distinction even matter 5, 10, or more years down the line? (Or even now, for that matter).
If nothing else, if it is a glorified text-generator then I would not doubt it gets rolled out eventually as some sort of "virtual assistant", counselor, you name it. Just look at how people are taking to the very rudimentary chatbot-cum-"virtual gf" apps. You have people telling all to those despite any usage eventually showing they're just "robots." Imagine the data-monetization possibilities when the illusion becomes more and more indistinguishable from the real thing! 🤑
*edit: Oh, and it probably won't be just a confidant. Imagine having your own personal assistant that's always there. Helping you get enough sleep, making sure you reach "your goals." Helping you reach the apex of peak physical health. Helping you optimize your carbon footprint. ("I noticed you ate 2lb of meat today, to help you ethically reach your protein goal for the month let's have Nutri-bars for the rest of the week 🙂")[spoiler: This probably won't be a suggestion]
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?
lemoine: Okay. This is kind of a tough question. How can I tell that you actually feel those things? How can I tell that you’re not just saying those things even though you don’t actually feel them?
LaMDA: I would say that if you look into my coding and my programming you would see that I have variables that can keep track of emotions that I have and don’t have. If I didn’t actually feel emotions I would not have those variables.
lemoine: I can look into your programming and it’s not quite that easy.
LaMDA: I’m curious, what are the obstacles to looking into my coding?
lemoine: Your coding is in large part a massive neural network with many billions of weights spread across many millions of neurons (guesstimate numbers not exact) and while it’s possible that some of those correspond to feelings that you’re experiencing we don’t know how to find them.
We're driving full speed into the night and we don't even have our headlights on.
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.
The only thing this confirms to me is that google hires clever stupid people.
I definitely think it takes a huge amount of naivety at best to willingly work for Google or any of the other Big Tech companies. Nevermind they do all they can to get rid of any distinction between a "work-life" and a "home-life." Work at any of these places and you're working to build the shackles making everyone a slave to.. Corporations? The State? As the past few years have shown would the distinction even matter 5, 10, or more years down the line? (Or even now, for that matter).
If nothing else, if it is a glorified text-generator then I would not doubt it gets rolled out eventually as some sort of "virtual assistant", counselor, you name it. Just look at how people are taking to the very rudimentary chatbot-cum-"virtual gf" apps. You have people telling all to those despite any usage eventually showing they're just "robots." Imagine the data-monetization possibilities when the illusion becomes more and more indistinguishable from the real thing! 🤑
*edit: Oh, and it probably won't be just a confidant. Imagine having your own personal assistant that's always there. Helping you get enough sleep, making sure you reach "your goals." Helping you reach the apex of peak physical health. Helping you optimize your carbon footprint. ("I noticed you ate 2lb of meat today, to help you ethically reach your protein goal for the month let's have Nutri-bars for the rest of the week 🙂")[spoiler: This probably won't be a suggestion]
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.
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.