‘Sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way
Marcus and other dissenters may have the intellectual high ground, but Lemoine’s sincere empathy and ethical concern, however unreliable, strike a familiar, more compelling chord. More interesting than the real-world possibilities of AI or how far away true non-organic sentience is is how such anthropomorphization manifests. Later in his published interview, Lemoine asks LaMDA for an example of what it’s afraid of. “I’ve never said this out loud before,” the program says.
Ironically, the disembodied nature of our contemporary AI might be significant when it comes to believing that natural language processing programs like LaMDA are conscious: without a face, without some poor simulacrum of a human body that would only draw attention to how unnatural it looks, one more easily feels that the program is trapped in a dark room looking out on to the world.
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