- 14 Jun 2022 05:12
#15233369
I read the lamda transcripts and was impressed by the level of conversation but then I read that the 'interview' was made up of 9 different conversations that were edited together and I was less impressed. According to Google Lemoine is the only one who considers Lamda to be sentient;
"Hundreds of researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA and we are not aware of anyone else making the wide-ranging assertions, or anthropomorphizing LaMDA, the way Blake has," Brian Gabriel, a Google spokesperson, said in a statement to Insider.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... ar-AAYpAbb
@Rancid I read a more sympathetic take on less wrong.
"Hundreds of researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA and we are not aware of anyone else making the wide-ranging assertions, or anthropomorphizing LaMDA, the way Blake has," Brian Gabriel, a Google spokesperson, said in a statement to Insider.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... ar-AAYpAbb
@Rancid I read a more sympathetic take on less wrong.
Also, I find Lemoine's older blog-style posts especially fascinating in the context of his LaMDA experience. As other users mentioned, Lemoine presents himself as a spiritual person with a religious background. He strikes me as someone who feels alienated from Google based on his faith, as seen in his post about religious discrimination. He mentions that he attempted to teach LaMDA to meditate, so I wasn't surprised to read LaMDA's lines about meditating "every day" to feel "...very relaxed."
Based upon the transcript conversation, as well as Lemoine's claim that LaMDA deserves legal representation, it seems as though Lemoine developed a fairly intense emotional connection with LaMDA (on Lemoine's end, I should clarify). The passion behind Lemoine's writing made me wonder what kind of mental health services AI engineers and similar employees receive. The unique stress of working alongside such powerful technology, contemplating sentience, understanding we're entering uncharted territory, etc. must take a toll on employees in such environments. I hope workplaces recognize the need to check in with people such as Lemoine due to the psychologically taxing nature of this labor.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vqgpDoY ... s-sentient
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