{"id":6479,"date":"2022-06-12T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T17:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2022-07-07T08:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:51:57","slug":"alright-so-here-are-my-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=6479","title":{"rendered":"Alright, so here are my comments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230; on Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/blake-lemoine-lamda-sentient-artificial-intelligence-google_n_62a5613ee4b06169ca8c0a2e?d_id=3887326&amp;ref=bffbhuffpost&amp;ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_campaign=us_main&amp;fbclid=IwAR0o5U4wv2cDP8o3XIAekj2Xh5wVPZVzVhyH696N8tnLv_m-YXtUDt0tFNU\">became convinced<\/a> that a machine learning model had become sentient, contacted federal government agencies about it, and was then <s>fired<\/s> placed on administrative leave for violating Google\u2019s confidentiality policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(1) I don\u2019t think Lemoine is right that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/ai\/lamda\/\">LaMDA<\/a> is at all sentient, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/cajundiscordian.medium.com\/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917\">transcript<\/a> is so mind-bogglingly impressive that I did have to stop and think for a second! Certainly, if you sent the transcript back in time to 1990 or whenever, even an expert reading it might say, yeah, it looks like by 2022 AGI has more likely been achieved than not (&#8220;but can I run my own tests?&#8221;).  Read it for yourself, if you haven\u2019t yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(2) Reading Lemoine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cajundiscordian.medium.com\/\">blog<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cajundiscordian\">Twitter<\/a> this morning, he holds many views that I disagree with, not just about the sentience of LaMDA. Yet I\u2019m touched and impressed by how principled he is, and I expect I\u2019d hit it off with him if I met him. I wish that a solution could be found where Google wouldn&#8217;t fire him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; on Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who became convinced that a machine learning model had become sentient, contacted federal government agencies about it, and was then fired placed on administrative leave for violating Google\u2019s confidentiality policies. (1) I don\u2019t think Lemoine is right that LaMDA is at all sentient, but the transcript is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical-spouting","category-the-fate-of-humanity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}