I think the capabilities of large language models are really impressive. The
language of these models is not grounded, as this article says, but in
principle it is possible to do
it.https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/foundation-models-may-be-future-of-ai-theyre-also-deeply-flawedTake
for example a robot, connect it to the Internet and a large language model,
and add an additional OCR layer in between. The result? Probably creepy and
uncanny, but if it works we would most likely think such an actor would be
sentient. The replies in the LaMDA dialog transcript look indistinguishable
from a human.
https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917-J.
-------- Original message --------From: glen <geprope...@gmail.com> Date:
6/13/22 17:14 (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Google
Engineer Thinks AI Bot Has Become Sentient "Remarkable" in the sense of "worthy
of remark"? Yeah, maybe.LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog
Applicationshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239Personally, I think we can
attribute Lemoine's belief in LaMDA's sentience is an artifact of his religious
belief. It's not exclusive to Christianity, though. One of the risks of the
positions taken by those who believe in the reality of things like Jungian
archetypes is false attribution. And it's not limited to anthropomorphic
attribution. To the person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Even if
such beliefs have some objective utility in some contexts, that utility is not
likely to be that transitive to other contexts.I suppose this is why I'm more
sympathetic to the (obviously still false in its extreme) behaviorist or
skeptical position (cf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phpr.12445). I.e. it's
completely irrelevant whether or not you *claim* to have feelings and emotions.
What's needed for knowledge (justified true belief) is a parallax pointing to
the same conclusion, preferably including some largely objective angles.An
objective angle on LaMDA might well be available from IIT operating over some
(very large) log/trace data from the executing program. *That* plus the bot
claiming it's sentient would give me pause.On 6/12/22 08:28, Jochen Fromm
wrote:> A Google engineer said he was placed on leave after claiming an AI
chatbot was sentient. The fact that he thinks it would be sentient is
remarkable, isn't it?>
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-thinks-artificial-intelligence-bot-has-become-sentient-2022-6--
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