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A Google engineer says AI has become sentient. What does that actually mean? (2022) (www.cbc.ca)
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Lemoine, who is also ordained as a mystic Christian priest, told Wired he became convinced of LaMDA's status as a "person" because of its level of self-awareness, the way it spoke about its needs and its fear of death if Google were to delete it.

He insists he was not fooled by a clever robot, as some scientists have suggested. Lemoine maintains his position, and even appeared to suggest that Google had enslaved the AI system.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't mean anything when the claim was already thoroughly debunked 4 years ago...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/13/tech/google-ai-not-sentient/index.html

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The news isn't that AI obviously is not sentient.

The news is that even some relatively smart people can be induced to think it is.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

Relatively smart people believe boneheaded things all the time, and have done so throughout history. Extreme case: Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. "In his autobiography, Mullis professed a belief in astrology and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien."

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

And already proven wrong, 4 years ago. This isn't a revelation.