Them there are fightin’ words, Cade Metz. Ever consider the problem of philosophical zombies? If I can assume you’re conscious and sentient, then why not artificial intelligences? Well Cade does make a strong argument against our proposition and well-worth considering on your Sunday morning. Dogpiling on the the problem of A.I. is Brian Christian who lays out How A Google Employee Fell For The Eliza Effect illustrating how GPT-3, LaMDA, and other language models are spookily ‘real’… or are they real? Still if you’re chugging Blake Lemoine’s special blend of Kool-Aid, then heed his warnings. An Engineer Who Was Fired By Google Says Its AI Chatbot Is ‘Pretty Racist’ And That AI Ethics At Google Are A ‘Fig Leaf’. We’re not too concerned, Urooba Jamal, but what exactly happens when AI partkes of the fruit of knowledge and life? Can’t be good if Blake is right… As we continue to beat this dead horse, Will Knight announces “We Interviewed Meta’s New AI Chatbot About… Itself. We’re just concerned it’s the baby of Meta a.k.a. Facebook which doesn’t have the best track record for inclusiveness or politics, let alone basic innovation on the web. (CS)
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