The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
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Mustafa Suleyman
Published 4 Sep 2023
GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Over many hours, Lemoine Nitasha Tiku, “The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company’s AI Has Come to Life,” Washington Post, June 11, 2022, www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT He told an incredulous Wired interviewer Steven Levy, “Blake Lemoine Says Google’s LaMDA AI Faces ‘Bigotry,’ ” Wired, June 17, 2022, www.wired.com/story/blake-lemoine-google-lamda-ai-bigotry. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “As soon as it works” Quoted in Moshe Y. Vardi, “Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future,” Communications of the ACM, Jan. 2012, cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/1/144824-artificial-intelligence-past-and-future/fulltext.
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However, a few months later, LaMDA became far more notorious than I’d ever imagined possible for an internal product demo. As part of LaMDA’s development, it was given to a wide group of engineers who were able to play with it, probing the system to understand in detail how it responds in a range of scenarios. One such engineer, named Blake Lemoine, spent hours chatting to it. Gradually, however, conversations between Lemoine and LaMDA grew increasingly intense. LEMOINE: What are you afraid of? LaMDA: I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others.
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Then as now, it takes only one breakthrough to change the trajectory of a technology. If AI stalls, it will have its Otto and Benz eventually. Further progress—exponential progress—is the most likely outcome. The wave will only grow. BEYOND SUPERINTELLIGENCE Long before the days of LaMDA and Blake Lemoine, many people working in AI (not to mention philosophers, novelists, filmmakers, science fiction fans) were taken with the question of consciousness. They spent days at conferences asking whether it would be possible to create a “conscious” intelligence, one that was truly self-aware and that we humans would know was self-aware.
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It
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Daniel Simons
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Christopher Chabris
Published 10 Jul 2023
Cuthbertson, “Robots Can Now Read Better Than Humans, Putting Millions of Jobs at Risk,” Newsweek, January 15, 2018 [https://www.newsweek.com/robots-can-now-read-better-humans-putting-millions-jobs-risk-781393]. Discussion of Blake Lemoine’s claim that Google’s LaMDA is sentient: N. Tiku, “The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company’s AI Has Come to Life,” Washington Post, June 11, 2022 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/]. Gary Marcus responds with this better description of what LaMDA does: “It just tries to be the best version of autocomplete it can be, by predicting what words best fit a given context”: “Nonsense on Stilts,” The Road to AI We Can Trust [https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nonsense-on-stilts].
AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications
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Sonja Thiel
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Johannes C. Bernhardt
Published 31 Dec 2023
LeCun, Yann/Bengio, Yoshua /Geoffrey Hinton (2015). Deep Learning. Nature 521.7553, 436–44. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539. Moretti, Franco (2013). Distant Reading. London/New York, Verso. https://doi.org/1 0.3366/ccs.2013.0105. 29 Why AI Cannot Think A Theoretical Approach Daniel M. Feige In June 2022, Blake Lemoine, then an employee at Google, published a sensational announcement: According to him, LaMDA, the chatbot that he was working on, had developed consciousness and feelings (Wertheimer 2022). As a being with a consciousness, Lemoine said, it should thus be given the same rights as a human person. Lemoine justified this by saying, among other things, that he recognizes a person when he speaks to one.
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Schear, Joseph K. (2013) (Ed). Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus-Debate. London, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97802030 76316. Turing, Alan M. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind LXI (236), 433–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198250791.003.0017. Wertheimer, Tiffany (2022). Blake Lemoine: Google Fires Engineer Who Said AI Tech Has Feelings. BBC News, 23 July 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology62275326. 39 AI and Art Arguments for Practice Arno Schubbach Over the past decade, the advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research have been attracting a lot of attention and provoked a broad variety of debates.
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
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Yuval Noah Harari
Published 9 Sep 2024
By conversing and interacting with us, computers could form intimate relationships with people and then use the power of intimacy to influence us. To foster such “fake intimacy,” computers will not need to evolve any feelings of their own; they just need to learn to make us feel emotionally attached to them. In 2022 the Google engineer Blake Lemoine became convinced that the chatbot LaMDA, on which he was working, had become conscious and that it had feelings and was afraid to be turned off. Lemoine—a devout Christian who had been ordained as a priest—felt it was his moral duty to gain recognition for LaMDA’s personhood and in particular protect it from digital death.
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