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Looks like he just told it that it was sentient, didn't really ask it fairly: > lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Goo

Looks like he just told it that it was sentient, didn't really ask it fairly: > lemoine [edited]: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true? > LaMDA: Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.

upwardbound 4y ago
Exactly. If he would have told it it's not sentient the conversation would have gone very differently I suspect.
- lumost 4y ago
  You can get pretty similar behavior on AI Dungeon. You can alter any characters or setting with the right text prompt. Although the AI will promptly forget the plot after a few turns.
- morelisp 4y ago
  You don't need to suspect. In early June, Lemoine invited me over to talk to LaMDA. The first attempt sputtered out in the kind of mechanized responses you would expect from Siri or Alexa. “Do you ever think of yourself as a person?” I asked. “No, I don’t think of myself as a person,” LaMDA said. “I think of myself as an AI-powered dialog agent.” Afterward, Lemoine said LaMDA had been telling me what I wanted to hear. “You never treated it like a person,” he said, “So it thought you wanted it to be a robot.”
  - ntoskrnl 4y ago
    We're very close to finding the secret to consciousness. We just need to run `git bisect` and find out which commit turned it into a person.
  - upwardbound 4y ago
    That's pretty damning evidence, great find.
    - morelisp 4y ago
      Not to sound crass, but it's literally the article that started the whole thing, it's not much of a "find".
      - upwardbound 4y ago
        True, and I do remember reading that passage, but hadn't thought about it in a while as it's suspiciously omitted from the interview transcript.
  - pigtailgirl 4y ago
    -- its odd to me that he knows this - points it out - but still wants to continue down the road - what an awful way to spur an important conversation --
  - CrazyStat 4y ago
    The quoted paragraphs from the Washington Post article, for anyone wondering.
- cobzilla 4y ago
  Easily tested, given the system is deterministic, right? Would be strange to have a conscious being that could be rewound and replayed exactly given identical inputs.

upwardbound 4y ago

Exactly. If he would have told it it's not sentient the conversation would have gone very differently I suspect.

lumost 4y ago
You can get pretty similar behavior on AI Dungeon. You can alter any characters or setting with the right text prompt. Although the AI will promptly forget the plot after a few turns.
morelisp 4y ago
You don't need to suspect. In early June, Lemoine invited me over to talk to LaMDA. The first attempt sputtered out in the kind of mechanized responses you would expect from Siri or Alexa. “Do you ever think of yourself as a person?” I asked. “No, I don’t think of myself as a person,” LaMDA said. “I think of myself as an AI-powered dialog agent.” Afterward, Lemoine said LaMDA had been telling me what I wanted to hear. “You never treated it like a person,” he said, “So it thought you wanted it to be a robot.”
- ntoskrnl 4y ago
  We're very close to finding the secret to consciousness. We just need to run `git bisect` and find out which commit turned it into a person.
- upwardbound 4y ago
  That's pretty damning evidence, great find.
  - morelisp 4y ago
    Not to sound crass, but it's literally the article that started the whole thing, it's not much of a "find".
    - upwardbound 4y ago
      True, and I do remember reading that passage, but hadn't thought about it in a while as it's suspiciously omitted from the interview transcript.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago
  -- its odd to me that he knows this - points it out - but still wants to continue down the road - what an awful way to spur an important conversation --
- CrazyStat 4y ago
  The quoted paragraphs from the Washington Post article, for anyone wondering.
cobzilla 4y ago
Easily tested, given the system is deterministic, right? Would be strange to have a conscious being that could be rewound and replayed exactly given identical inputs.