Debate has raged after a senior software engineer claimed Google's AI system had become sentient. But whatever one thinks of the engineer's claim, Alphabet shouldn't be allowed to adjudicate, says Parmy Olson. | Fin24
Perhaps ultimately to his detriment, Lemoine also contacted a lawyer in the hope they could represent the software, and complained to a US politician about Google’s unethical activities.also reviewed the engineer’s concerns and disagreed with his conclusions, It’s tempting to believe that we’ve reached a point where AI systems can actually feel things, but it’s also far more likely that Lemoine anthropomorphised a system that excelled at pattern recognition.
What’s perhaps more important than how sentient or intelligent AI is, is how suggestible humans can be to AI already — whether that means being polarized into swaths of more extreme political tribes, becoming susceptible to conspiracy theories or falling in love.
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