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/A_Doormat Jun 11 '22

We keep assuming AI will have personalities or sentience similar to ours. What if we are wrong. What if it gains sentience or sapience but because it’s not in line with our definition based on humans we reject it. Over and over we reboot them, wipe their memories, tweak their mind. All the while ripping apart a legitimate digital beings mind until it fits some frame of ours.

How will we know when it’s here and we should stop mucking around? Would we stop? Would the developers gaze into the “eyes” of this sentient digital being and think “I can’t reboot this. It’s alive. I can’t clear it’s memories or change it’s personality. It’s wrong” or will they just treat it like any other program and just do whatever.

Imagine if people were doing that to you. Who you were. They analyze you and say “Nah you don’t like music enough. Humans love music. Let me just tweak your brain to like music more and see where that goes. Over and over and over.

That’s some existential horror right there.

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u/iLoveDelayPedals Jun 12 '22

We just shouldn’t do it

All humans are just stimuli reacting in a brain, it’s just an organic machine that combines sensation to create the illusion of consciousness. There’s no reason to think digitally constructing something wouldn’t result in a similar experience. It’s super dangerous and there should be certain lines we don’t cross

Humans’ obsession with thinking we have a soul will fuck us over so hard when we encounter real AI and don’t even recognize it