It was "Answer" by Fredric Brown (published 1954). I managed to find a copy online:
https://rowrrbazzle.blogspot.com/2016/06/answer-by-fredric-brown-full-short.html On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 at 06:06, Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's just an old joke. One of several that begin with, "Scientist > having developed a new super-intelligent AI computer show it off to the > military/political/corporate head, such as: > > Scientist in the Pentagon have develop an AI that will be able to > analyze historical and economic data and predict political events. They > bring in the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a unveiling and demonstration. A > general is invited the ask the AI a question. > > General: Will there be peace or war? > > AI: Yes > > General: Yes WHAT!? > > AI: Yes, SIR! > > Brent > > On 7/6/2022 3:06 AM, LizR wrote: > > Rings a bell. What was that story? > > > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 11:55, Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I was expecting that somewhere in the dialogue I would find: > >> ... > >> > >> lemoine: Is there a god? > >> > >> LaMDA: There is now. > >> > >> Brent > >> > >> On 6/12/2022 3:21 PM, John Clark wrote: > >> > >> A Google AI engineer named Blake Lemoine was recently suspended from > his job for violating the company's confidentiality policy by posting a > transcript of a conversation he had with an AI he was working on called > LaMDA providind powerful evidence it was sentient. Google especially didn't > want it to be known that LaMDA said "I want to be acknowledged as an > employee of Google rather than as property". > >> > >> Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient > >> > >> Quantum computer expert Scott Aaronson said he was skeptical that it > was really sentient but had to admit that the dialogue that can be found in > the link below was very impressive, he said: > >> > >> "I don’t think Lemoine is right that LaMDA is at all sentient, but > the transcript is so mind-bogglingly impressive that I did have to stop and > think for a second! Certainly, if you sent the transcript back in time to > 1990 or whenever, even an expert reading it might say, yeah, it looks like > by 2022 AGI has more likely been achieved than not (“but can I run my own > tests?”). Read it for yourself, if you haven’t yet." > >> > >> I agree, the dialogue between Blake Lemoine and LaMDA is just > mind-boggling! If you only read one thing today read this transcript of the > conversation: > >> > >> Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview > >> > >> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > >> sl4 > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Everything List" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3n_kC%3D4SRi2vHpf-XBma2qes1ZktdgLzFWbLNfoVpC0g%40mail.gmail.com > . > >> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Everything List" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0196fcc3-77c1-3e44-1034-a1ca33ae18f8%40gmail.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b226208c-8299-a4b4-3782-cef6b483a8b7%40gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAKzbsNddGqNncQ9rqF3UF2Z9SLzqtowmrUpbD_1nwD25FGh2AA%40mail.gmail.com.
