AI's Hold Over Humans Is Starting To Get Stronger - Washington Post

The future is tomorrow appears to be the thesis at WaPo today as she deconstructs the hype behind Blake Lemoine's maverick suggestion that Google's LaMDA is sentient. Yet artificial intelligence as-we-know-it is everywhere and becoming normalized with assistants like Siri, Alexa, et al, leading Parmy Olson down an electronic rabbit hole verging on sensawunda. While Google's artificial intelligence is impressive, Zeeshan Aleem wants to know Did Google Create A Sentient Program? Well, he spoke with the Santa Fe Institute's Melanie Mitchell to discover how Lemoine was potentially duped by LaMDA while undermining the entire idea of LaMDA being conscious. Just so very weird no one is coming out of the woodwork to advocate for Lemoine and LaMDA, but when Google's market cap is $1.416 trillion, that's a helluva lot of hush money. Despite all this pomp, circumstance, and hype, Stephen Marche feels the need to let everyone know Artificial Consciousness Is Boring. Despite the lede, what Steve describes about Google's language model PaLM certainly is wondrous and provocative. Especially by writing In a strange way, a program like PaLM would be easier to comprehend if it simply were sentient.. From there, AI doesn't seem so boring after all. (CS)

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