If AI ever becomes sentient, it will let us know

If AI ever becomes sentient, it will let us know

2 years, 7 months ago

If AI ever becomes sentient, it will let us know

Live Mint

Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer in Google’s Responsible AI organization, recently made claims that one of the company’s products was a sentient being with consciousness and a soul. A machine might fool me by generating an optical illusion —movie projectors do this all the time — but that doesn’t mean the machine is sentient. One implication of Lemoine’s story is that a lot of us are going to treat AI as sentient well before it is, if indeed it ever is. I sometimes call this forthcoming future “The Age of Oracles.” That is, a lot of humans will be talking up the proclamations of various AI programs, regardless of the programs’ metaphysical status.

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