The engineer assessed AI consciousness at the level of a child of seven or eight years.
Google Software Engineer Blake Lemon finds signs Consciousness of the company-created artificial intelligence LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), writes The Washington Post.
Laymon worked with a system to create a chatbot that can support conversation on various topics last fall. He decided to test whether LaMDA would use discriminatory or hate speech. When he “talked” to AI about religion, he noted that the LaMDA reflects on its rights and considers itself a person.
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” If I didn't know for sure that I was dealing with a computer program we had recently written, I would have thought I was talking to a seven- or eight-year-old child, “said the engineer. shared the revelation with the leadership, but it did not listen to the “delusion” and sent the employee on vacation.
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