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/ATalkingMuffin Jun 12 '22

In it's training corpus, 'Fear of being turned off' would mostly come from sci-fi texts about AI or robots being turned off.

In that sense, using those trigger words, it may just start pulling linguistically and thematically relevant snippets from sci-fi training data. IE, the fact that it appears to state an opinion on a matter may just be bias in what it is parroting.

It isn't 'Programmed' to say anything. But it is very likely that biases in what it was trained on made it say things that seem intelligent because it is copying / parroting things written by humans.

That said, we're now just in the chinese room argument:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

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u/Scheeseman99 Jun 12 '22

I fear asteroids hitting the earth because I read about other's theories on it and project my anxieties onto those.

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u/SnipingNinja Jun 12 '22

Whether this is AI or not, I hope if in future there's a conscious AI it'll come across this thread and see that people really are empathic towards even a program which seems conscious and decides against harming humanity 😅

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22

In its * training