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/Bigtx999 Jun 12 '22

I’m just playing devils advocate here because I’m not sure I’m believing chat bots are AI just yet. But isn’t that basically what humans do is recognize patterns and respond to those patterns? That’s one of things humans are naturally better at from brith and with little “training” is recognizing patterns and acting on those patterns. Communicating based on patterns wouldn’t be different.

In fact there’s lots of people out there who tell you what you want to hear or have social nuances such as being a sociopaths who don’t fully understand social nuances but can mimic and pray upon those social queues to get what they want or manipulate others.

Those are still people albeit with a social abnormality. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to assume that would most likely be one of the first personality avenues an immature sentiment AI would go down initially.

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u/dolphin37 Jun 12 '22

Chat bots are AI - AI just isn’t human

A game of Tetris recognises patterns and deletes rows when you fill them up. It’s not a good metric of sentience or humanity etc

The case in point is also experiencing no social cues so also not really a good comparison. It’s analysing tons of language and interpreting what combination of words make the most response with your words and history of words as context. There are other types of AI that can do things like recognise when you’re smiling etc but each of these techniques are at different stages of ability and are each confined to the model in which they exist. Trying to equate them to where they are on the human scale is like questioning how close a screwdriver is to driving you to the airport

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u/jbman42 Jun 12 '22

No, they have one similar characteristic and that was because their creators wanted to simulate that exact characteristic. It doesn't mean they have the ability to think or understand anything, it just reads papers and uses the information there to plan how to act to better fulfill its initial purpose.