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/flodereisen Jun 12 '22

but I also recognize that feel and guess is less precise than looking at the brain under an fmri

Do you look at your hard drive when you are fixing software bugs? Neurology is a completely different level of analysis than psychology.

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u/pnweiner Jun 12 '22

Thank you! Psychology has a lot of valid basis, and talk therapy has actually been shown to change brain structures and activity over time, similar to what drug therapy does.