Artificial intelligence officially gets scary

[wektor]

Computer Lib/Dream Machines : Ted Nelson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Computer Lib/Dream Machines is a 1974 book by Ted Nelson, printed as a two-front-cover paperback to indicate its intertwingled nature. Originally...

archive.org

 

[Mr. Tea]

Thoughts, @Clinamenic et al?

 

[william_kent]

Thoughts, @Clinamenic et al?

judging by the date of the tweet that @Mr. Tea has quoted, my thoughts are that although it is not unlikely that the guy read this article and saw this screenshot, it would be impossible to conclude whether he, consciously or unconsciously, copied the sentiments expressed

 

[Clinamenic]

Thoughts, @Clinamenic et al?

I still don't understand regression analysis, and certain major aspects of NNs like back propagation, but I do think the optics of the term "machine learning" won't be helpful as far as luddite techno reactionaries are concerned.

 

[wektor]

 

[Mr. Tea]

Oh god, "humxn" is all too plausible.

 

[wg-]

I beg to differ but it is a nice strawman hes developed there

Also like the idea of a tech lad with an anime avatar calling deeming other groups as annoying people on the Internet

 

[Mr. Tea]

Also like the idea of a tech lad with an anime avatar calling deeming other groups as annoying people on the Internet

Haha, very good point there.

 

[luka]

 

[mixed_biscuits]

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Escapism's the only option in a world festooned with fly agaric

 

[Mr. Tea]

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This is the future liberals I want.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Conversation I had the other day with my industry source.*




*brother

 

[Mr. Tea]

Still though, lamb kebabs sound pretty good!

 

[Clinamenic]

Google Insider Claims Company's "Sentient" AI Has Hired an Attorney

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

futurism.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

Google Insider Claims Company's "Sentient" AI Has Hired an Attorney

Google engineer Blake Lemoine says the AI program called LaMDA is sentient and retained a lawyer for itself. Lemoine says LaMDA is a sentient person.

futurism.com

It had better be a robot attorney like in Futurama.

 

[wektor]

 

[Leo]

New Amazon Alexa feature will creepily mimic dead loved one's voices

It's like an episode of "Black Mirror"

mashable.com

 

[william_kent]

Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the engineer who said he believes the company’s LaMDA conversational technology is sentient

official reason is he was fired for breaching "security" rather than exhibiting a failure to understand probability distribution

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Google has fired Blake Lemoine, the engineer who said he believes the company’s LaMDA conversational technology is sentient

official reason is he was fired for breaching "security" rather than exhibiting a failure to understand probability distribution

Google doesn't understand probability distribution as there will be a distribution of engineers believing in AI sentience to varying degrees - it's called diversity

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Anyway, under Test Driven Development, wouldn't that AI pass the Turing test?