Baden

I don't see any ethical question here except pertaining to Lemoine's behaviour. I think the ethics of how we would treat a theoretically sentient AI a...

I'll have a chat to @"Caldwell" about it nearer the time.

Could be, but I can't guarantee anything yet.

That's at least as plausible as him believing what he's saying. That's at least as plausible as him believing what he's saying. Let's face it, the guy...

He's either a very lazy hustler who can't even be bothered to come up with a faked line of reasoning or one of those "sane" religious people for whom ...

Thanks for posting this. It puts a nice exclamation point on what we've been trying to get across. He has no reasons because there are none. I suppose...

I've learned that this kind of thing has a hold on people's imaginations but that they vastly underestimate the complexity of human language and have ...

It's analogical to a government scientist coming out and claiming aliens are being hidden in Area 51, getting a bunch of attention for it, embarassing...

I think Lemoine is being given too much credit by many on this thread. He is most likely a crackpot or a con artist. He wasn't put on leave by his com...

I like that you think you need to point this out. :lol:

You certainly don't need a word doc to type it and you can copy paste whatever you type the first time as per 180's advice. Thanks for participating a...

It's a good question, raises a lot of issues. Again though, you need a framework of approach otherwise you're left wondering whether anything from whi...

You got the simplified version. The original one was GPT-3's answer to "What is ice cream?"

There is an issue of frameworks here. What's the justificatory framework for connecting the production of language with feelings and awareness, i.e. s...

See the OP. It's a general discussion on the crisis. Yes, that makes it very messy. On the positive side, the mess is pretty much limited to this thre...

Yes, requests to disprove LaMDA is sentient, disprove my phone has feelings because it talks to me, disprove the flying spaghetti monster, disprove ca...

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Lemoine is either unstable or a con artist/attention seeker/troll. The idea that, as a software engineer of sou...

The more you look into the 'seeming' part, the less grounds for it there seems to be. Maybe there's a misconception concerning the term 'sentience'. B...

:lol:

Exactly. Makes me wonder how spontaneous this recent LaMDA flap is too. I suppose when AI is so ridiculously unimpressive, giving the impression there...

"Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) (stylized GPT·3) is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text....

Trying something a little easier... "Baden: Which president had seventeen heads? GPT-3: George Washington had seventeen heads." :chin:

I tried GPT-3. "Baden: What are your feelings on wind colour, texture, and using its intelligence in future applications? GPT-3: Wind colour? It can b...

+Banno wants another 100 pager.

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Nice. Shows how little it takes when you're not trying to make it look good. :up:

@"Banno" It's late here and I'm going to bed. Please behave yourself. I'd rather not wake up to half a dozen pages of your one liners vs everyone else...

Let's stay on topic anyhow folks or the AI in me will start automatically deleting posts. :wink:

The Turing test is insufficient due to evaluators being bad at their jobs, mostly. But it looks like I'm missing some context between you and @"Zzzone...

I think it's more likely to be a Monkeypox-type story that goes away quite quickly. But we'll see. :up:

Charitably, yes, though maybe in this case, he's just looking for attention. I wouldn't like to speculate.

That's fair.

True, so what's explicable and what's not is more obscured than with linear programming but I think going back to @"Real Gone Cat"'s point, it might s...

Unless, again, per the above that behaviour was beyond what was programmed.

I see no coherence in attributing sentience to the production of words via a software program either. So, I don't see justification for adding that la...

I.e. So far I agree with this: "The Google spokesperson also said that while some have considered the possibility of sentience in artificial intellige...

In fairness, I actually posted the above without reading the full conversation, just the article in the OP. Having looked over your link, which has mu...

I don't find it fascinating at all tbh. Just the opposite. I see it as a boring script of what a sentient AI should say in response to a bunch of pred...

Give me five minutes with LaMDA and I'll have it spitting gobbledygook. Not that claiming to have the same needs and wants as a person isn't. What do ...

I pretty much agree. I see no evidence of sentience here. I see an AI program pulling from its database the type of conversation a sentient AI would h...

@"karl stone" Please stay away from the philosophical discussions if you want a casual chat/whinge. If you can't, your posts will be deleted and you w...

To all. Please don't respond to troll posts as your replies are likely to be deleted along with the posts.

Just a reminder that the OP specifies: Only content that shows respect for these specifications/is reasonably necessary to make an argument relevant t...

OK, well, you've made the point and laboured it a bit. If that's it, please leave the less political and more philosophically minded posters here to g...

Yes, it's a promising OP. Let's keep it on topic.

Postmodernism isn't a religion you sign up for that specifies 'Thou can't condemn Nazis' or whoever. That's a really perverse way to look at it. Plus,...

I'm not talking about the political indoctrination re content that you may get at, e.g. Liberty University vs Berekley. That comes later and is more o...

And everything in between. But yes, the basic polarity is between instrumentalists, often politicians and business leaders, whose goals focus on effic...

You got me.

I suppose we could ban @"Clarky" just to meet quotas and so on.