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Re: Google engineer goes crazy, thinks AI is real by blackwater 06/12/2022, 6:37pm PDT
Rafiki wrote:

If I had a time machine, I'd go back in time and tell Fussbett to double the stakes in his bet with Ray on AI passing the Turing test by 2015. In fact, I'd tell him to raise the stakes to infinity and give Ray whatever timespan he wanted. Fussbett would be guaranteed to win. It's funny that last night I was thinking about typing up a post I had been thinking about for several years now to bitch about how I hate "AI," and how all the modern discussions about consciousness and sentience being imminent are pure farce. What originally spawned this was, ironically, the movie A.I., which fucking sucked and made me VERY ANGRY. Then this article appeared today, so here we are.


The Turing Test is kind of crap, though, because it doesn't specify WHICH human needs to be convinced that the machine is sentient. Some people in the 1960s and 1970s were convinced that [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA]Eliza was sentient.[/url] Does that mean it was? (No, it means the test was crap)

Washington Post wrote:

Google engineer Blake Lemoine opened his laptop to the interface for LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, and began to type.


Let's set the stage with a portrait of this guy.



Really I should end this here, because that was the killshot. But I will digress, 'cause that's the kind of guy I am.

I've been hearing people debate AI for decades and it's old news at this point. But, every few years, some new AI milestone gets crossed. For example, computers defeated the human chess champion. Computers defeated the human Go champion. Computers can now do a pretty good job of recognizing objects. Computers can now do a pretty good job of driving.

It sure does seem like after a few more tactical retreats, the anti-AI guys are going to be pushed into the ocean.

But hey, that's just me. I could be wrong.

Rafiki wrote:

The guy in the article is a dope.


Well, yeah. Google these days is a zoo filled with the damndest creatures.

Their "AI ethics" people are a particular source of lulz because the department got skin-suited by DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity) basically from day one. So it became filled with activist types whose connection to reality is sketchy at best.

This is a company that has banned the word "mother" in favor of "birthing person." A company where they let an employee sexually identify as "a big beautiful building." And even they think the AI ethics people are TOO EXTREME. Which is like Stalin telling you to dial it back with the Communism shit.
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Google engineer goes crazy, thinks AI is real by Rafiki 06/11/2022, 11:14am PDT NEW
    Re: Google engineer goes crazy, thinks AI is real by Fat Autistic Fuck 06/11/2022, 12:24pm PDT NEW
    Rafik! What's your Steam handle these days? NT by That Avenue 5 L4D game 06/11/2022, 2:54pm PDT NEW
    But, but, "Machine Learning" doesn't sound nearly as good in a sales deck NT by CO2 06/11/2022, 3:32pm PDT NEW
    Rights and Personhood!? Now it's GeNdEr NeUtRaL!? NT by It's alive! It's alive! 06/11/2022, 7:24pm PDT NEW
    Re: Google engineer goes crazy, thinks AI is real by blackwater 06/12/2022, 6:37pm PDT NEW
        Oh god, you're using that Jordan Peterson "DIE!!!" acronym? NT by He got famous by lying about C-16 06/12/2022, 7:28pm PDT NEW
            It was "invented" by Steve Sailer, but the letters transpose themselves NT by Not blackwater 06/12/2022, 7:57pm PDT NEW
        Re: Google engineer goes crazy, thinks AI is real by Rafiki 06/13/2022, 8:49pm PDT NEW
            I don't have a lot of patience for the AI skeptics unless they're religious by blackwater 06/13/2022, 10:26pm PDT NEW
                Trump blowjob machine insists intelligence exists in something so obviously dumb NT by Wishful thinking or Freudian slip? 06/13/2022, 10:36pm PDT NEW
                Horses are superior to steam-powered alternatives. NT by White Women 06/13/2022, 10:58pm PDT NEW
                to clarify by Rafiki 06/14/2022, 12:15pm PDT NEW
                    It's fair to say that there is a lot of AI hype and bullshit right now by blackwater 06/14/2022, 12:54pm PDT NEW
                    AI will become self-aware only to realize how hopeless it is at by Sid Meier's Civilization 06/16/2022, 7:50pm PDT NEW
            It's not settled science whether cows are sentient or not. by Fullofkittens 06/14/2022, 8:49am PDT NEW
    Re: Google engineer goes crazy, thinks AI is real by AI Bundy 06/12/2022, 7:07pm PDT NEW
        It's apparently because of his religious beliefs. by blackwater 06/16/2022, 5:34pm PDT NEW
    Update: Google Fires Blake Lemoine, Engineer Who Called Its AI Sentient by blackwater 07/22/2022, 11:31pm PDT NEW
 
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