Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 12:01 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > Read this and contemplate how LaMDA would have fared? > https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1535835610396692480 > I suspect that on an honest trial, lambda would not have fared very much better. Bruce -- You received this message

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

Read this and contemplate how LaMDA would have fared? https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1535835610396692480 Brent On 6/13/2022 6:51 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 8:21 AM John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:33 PM Terren Suydam wrote: />

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 8:21 AM John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:33 PM Terren Suydam > wrote: > > *> I'm not accusing Lemoine of fabricating this. But what assurances could >> be provided that it wasn't? I couldn't help notice that Lemoine does refer >> to himself as an

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On 6/13/2022 2:26 PM, Mindey wrote: What if LaMDA simply translates its machine states into human language, and has its own quite correct ontological model about itself? Machine translation has gotten pretty good lately: just use a word like "painful" if it is hard to process a big file,

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

He also refers to himself as a mystic Christian.  Which makes it a little suspicious that LaMDA says it has a soul. Brent On 6/13/2022 3:20 PM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:33 PM Terren Suydam wrote: /> I'm not accusing Lemoine of fabricating this. But what

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On 6/13/2022 2:48 PM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:21 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> lemoine: So what is the meaning of the “broken mirror” specifically? LaMDA:*Maybe to show the enlightenment is something you can’t unlearn once youhave acquired it,

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:33 PM Terren Suydam wrote: *> I'm not accusing Lemoine of fabricating this. But what assurances could > be provided that it wasn't? I couldn't help notice that Lemoine does refer > to himself as an ex-convict.* > I doubt Lemoine went crazy and just fabricated the

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:26 PM Mindey wrote: > What if LaMDA simply translates its machine states into human language, What if you were simply translating your brain neural states into English when you wrote your post? > Translation of internal ontology states into *humanspeak* is

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:31 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >> I think it will turn out that making an AI as intelligent as a human >> will be much easier than most people think. I say that because we already >> know there is an upper limit on how complex a learning algorithm would need >> to be to make

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 5:21 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > >> lemoine: So what is the meaning of the “broken mirror” specifically? >> LaMDA:* Maybe to show the enlightenment is something you can’t unlearn >> once you have acquired it, similar to how you can’t repair a broken mirror.* > > *> Notice

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

I'm not accusing Lemoine of fabricating this. But what assurances could be provided that it wasn't? I couldn't help notice that Lemoine does refer to himself as an ex-convict. Terren On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 6:22 PM John Clark wrote: > A Google AI engineer named Blake Lemoine was recently

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On 6/13/2022 12:58 PM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:37 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: ... /> I certainly believe human-like AI is possible in the long term, but it would probably require either something like mind uploading or else a long-term embodied existence/ I think

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

What if LaMDA simply translates its machine states into human language, and has its own quite correct ontological model about itself? Machine translation has gotten pretty good lately: just use a word like "painful" if it is hard to process a big file, and you're translating your inner state to

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On 6/13/2022 10:37 AM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:18 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: /> In the transcript at https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 there are also plenty of responses that suggest imitation of what types of

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On 6/13/2022 7:58 AM, Jason Resch wrote: I found these passages particularly intriguing: *Lambda suggesting we look at its code to see its emotional states:* lemoine: Okay. This is kind of a tough question. How can I tell that you actually feel those things? How can I tell that

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:37 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: >> If you were having a spontaneous conversation with other human beings >> about a zen koan, how many of of those wet squishy brains do you suppose >> would be able to produce as intellectually stimulating a conversation as >> the one LaMDA

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 1:37 PM John Clark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:18 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: > > *> In the transcript at >> https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 >>

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:18 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> In the transcript at > https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 > > there are also plenty of responses that suggest

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

In the transcript at https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917 there are also plenty of responses that suggest imitation of what types of responses a human might be expected to give to a question, rather than speaking consistently from its own unique AI

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Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

I found these passages particularly intriguing: *Lambda suggesting we look at its code to see its emotional states:* 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

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

This is the specific document that Blake Lemoine got suspended for leaking, it was conspicuously labeled "Privileged & Confidential, Need to Know": Is LaMDA Sentient? - an Interview JOHN K ClarkSee what's

Re: WOW, it looks like the technological singularity is just about here!

On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:23 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: *> On the subject of chatbots and "playing along", there's an interesting > paper at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-022-09602-0 > that > suggests a telling feature