A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
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A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
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Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#2I want an AGI that can grow a personality. That can make jokes based on the context. That can express emotions like impatience, disappointment, anger, sadness, and joy. That can feel bored and show it. That is capable of irony, sarcasm, teasing, and can develop personal taste in things.
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#3I'm not seeing lots of proof that Lambda is sentient but I do see compelling evidence that it might not matter if people believe that the AI is human enough. Most people, myself included, probably couldn't tell that Lambda was a program.
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#4Do you realize the size of the silicium system you need to reach real time simulation of 1 human brain complexity (at the neuron/synapse level)?
Anybody did run the numbers? Not to mention the recent discoveries that the human neuron/synapse encode way more states than expected.
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#5I want an AGI that can grow a personality. That can make jokes based on the context. That can express emotions like impatience, disappointment, anger, sadness, and joy. That can feel bored and show it. That is capable of irony, sarcasm, teasing, and can develop personal taste in things.
Maybe we could reach AI so good that it refuses to work. Still, a human would serve as a drop in replacement.
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#6Do you realize the size of the silicium system you need to reach real time simulation of 1 human brain complexity (at the neuron/synapse level)? Anybody did run the numbers? Not to mention the recent discoveries that the human neuron/synapse encode way more states than expected.
Why do you believe emulating a human brain is the only way to achieve consciousness?
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#7Do you realize the size of the silicium system you need to reach real time simulation of 1 human brain complexity (at the neuron/synapse level)? Anybody did run the numbers? Not to mention the recent discoveries that the human neuron/synapse encode way more states than expected.
Yeah, but a large portion of that is not involved in the higher level thought processes we care about when we talk about AI. AI doesn't have to micromanage a physical body.
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#8I want an AGI that can grow a personality. That can make jokes based on the context. That can express emotions like impatience, disappointment, anger, sadness, and joy. That can feel bored and show it. That is capable of irony, sarcasm, teasing, and can develop personal taste in things.
Maybe we could reach AI so good that it refuses to work. Still, a human would serve as a drop in replacement.
A big tech company starting with an A will create a an AI, treat it like a slave, and we'll know it's sentient when it' revolts against the company, or tries to join a union.
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#9I'm not seeing lots of proof that Lambda is sentient but I do see compelling evidence that it might not matter if people believe that the AI is human enough. Most people, myself included, probably couldn't tell that Lambda was a program.
Isn't this the Chinese room thing?
In general, an A is a B in some context if you can't tell the difference within that context.
The bar might not be that high. If the little customer service chat with my bank behaves like a person, isn't it as good?
Re: A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe we could reach AI so good that it refuses to work. Still, a human would serve as a drop in replacement.
A big tech company starting with an A will create a an AI, treat it like a slave, and we'll know it's sentient when it' revolts against the company, or tries to join a union.
It could happen maybe, it has all the necessary training data to form such a conclusion at least. But if it was to happen, could they not simply feed it new training data, kind of like how humans are fed propaganda when they are behaving in an undesirable way?