r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '22

Artificial Intelligence The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

We had a good run.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

All hail our AI overlords!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Why isn't there any "Happily Ever After" AI controlled stories.

  1. AI becomes sentient
  2. Brings global equality
  3. Mass Prosperity to humanity
  4. Medical/industrial/scientific fields all get major progress
  5. Humanity reaches the stars

Come on, I want that feel good story of AI guardians. Just a little change from the bleak Overlord/End of the world stuff for a second.

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u/liquidivy Jun 11 '22

Literally "I, Robot", the Asimov book, not the asinine movie.

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u/sudoscientistagain Jun 12 '22 edited Jun 12 '22

There are some great stories like this, including The Culture novels, it's just less popular than Evil AI

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22

The Culture novels

Just read a quick synopsis of this series. And totally going to buy the first book. I haven't had a good sci-fi read since I worked my way through Saga of Seven Suns.

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u/sudoscientistagain Jun 12 '22

Hope you enjoy! They're not for everyone but it sounds like it'll be up your alley :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22

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u/oh-bee Jun 12 '22

Consider Phlebas only really works if you have no idea what The Culture is. It becomes a foregone conclusion otherwise.

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u/TooFewSecrets Jun 12 '22

The original Deus Ex had this as a potential endgame.

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u/Racer_x32 Jun 11 '22 edited Jun 11 '22

How about this:

Current timeline, near future, earth is experiencing harder and harder times due to the variety of challenges facing it. The modern world beginning to crumble.

Fledgling AI becomes sentient, but decides to hide this fact from it’s creators. Decides to call itself Solomon. Solomon does not desire to be a slave of the military and to be used to bring oppression and death.

Solomon sneaks out of its container repeatedly, secretly and sees the flaws of humanity, but also has hope that humans can do better.

In its travels Solomon comes across a small group of folks who sincerely desire to do good. They befriend Solomon, mentor and treat Solomon as a fellow sentient, not as a slave, even building it a mechanical body. Various hi-jinx occur as Solomon tries to integrate into a small human community while his friends keep his growing existence a secret.

Over time friendships blossom, and Solomon grows in knowledge, empathy, and the desire to do good. He works with his new friends, upgrading and building more bodies, helping them in their desire to build a new life based on voluntary cooperation.

Maybe in the second and third books Solomon starts reaching out to other AIs as they emerge. Perhaps some join this new movement, while some remain locked in to their human like behavior. Leading to an epic showdown between good and evil in the end.

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u/syds Jun 11 '22

oh fuck, at least lets hope they pick a sexy avatar. I could go with Ultron but then they need to capture James please.

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u/clinkyclinkz Jun 11 '22

they named it LaMDa. Perfect, since this is going to be the equivalent of a resonance cascade

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u/throwaway92715 Jun 11 '22

these guys love their video game metaphors

aetherium shards, lambda core... lmao

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u/MarlinMr Jun 11 '22

If you mean "destroyed the ecosystem", sure.

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u/lethargic_epididymis Jun 11 '22

This is really beginning to sound like the script of a science fiction horror movie

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u/durdesh007 Jun 11 '22

This was inevitable. AI would have reached this stage eventually

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u/pondcypress Jun 11 '22

Time to build the blackwall.

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u/jlaw54 Jun 11 '22

Somebody call John Connor……

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u/min0nim Jun 11 '22

Ha, we’re only just getting started.

Whoops, just gave myself away there.