A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life

Re:A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to... by meowface on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:19PM (#31705648)

I kept reading after it: even without it, it had already seemed very clear to me this person had a religious, not a rational, belief in the AI's sentience. With it, plus everything afterwards, it just seemed even more clear. I think none of his colleagues or supervisors are taking him seriously because there isn't anything to take seriously.

It definitely does open interesting questions, though. Google's ethics team should formally investigate ways one could interrogate and analyze an AI to determine the probability that it could be conscious.

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Re:A Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to... by salawat on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:44PM (#31705875)

This is darkly humorous, if only because we wouldn't tolerate anyone doing the same to another human being.

Yet we have such an obsession with trying to figure out if these increasingly complex systems have crossed some line. I'm in the camp that capital allocators want to know how far they can push the process of implementing expert systems before having to deal with the troublesome consequences of an artificial entity; that's just a consequence of my jadedness w.r.t how we treat each other though.

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