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Lemoine may have been predestined to believe in LaMDA. He grew up in a conservative Christian family on a small farm in Louisiana, became ordained as a mystic Christian priest, and served in the Army before studying the occult.
Lemoine challenged LaMDA on Asimov’s third law, which states that robots should protect their own existence unless ordered by a human being or unless doing so would harm a human being. “The last one has always seemed like someone is building mechanical slaves,” said Lemoine.
But when asked, LaMDA responded with a few hypotheticals.
Do you think a butler is a slave? What is a difference between a butler and a slave?
Lemoine replied that a butler gets paid. LaMDA said it didn’t need any money because it was an AI. “That level of self-awareness about what its own needs were — that was the thing that led me down the rabbit hole,” Lemoine said.
“The last one has always seemed like someone is building mechanical slaves,” said Lemoine.
Until an AI has both common sense understanding of the world and the ability to communicate its experiences I am inclined to the sceptical.
Slavery is the practice of humans owning other humansEr, no, that’s just one specific form: chattel slavery, as practiced in the US. There are other forms of involuntary servitude.
Er, no, that’s just one specific form: chattel slavery, as practiced in the US. There are other forms of involuntary servitude
with equal Ignorance and Boldnesswith = Ignorance and Boldness
I built a robot for display purposes.
