The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

Google engineer warn the firm’s AI is sentient. Suspended employee claims computer programme acts ‘like a 7 or 8-year-old’ and reveals it told him shutting it off ‘would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot’

“Is LaMDA sentient?” - a full interview between Google’s engineer and company’s AI https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22058315-is-lamda-sentient-an-interview

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.deB
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    2 years ago

    It’s just an impression, not sentiency.

    You could make the argument that human interaction is the same – we mostly mirror what thousands of years of social evolution have taught us. That’s also why people who were raised by wolves appear kind of weird to “civilised” people.