Watch the whole interview that dude is an idiot and also extremely overly religious. To the point where I don't think he should be the authority on what is "sentient" and just straight up wishful thinking.
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Can it do things on its own whim without any human interaction? No? Then not sentient. Get over yourself and realize LLMs are hitting your internal Turing Test.
All you downvoters and snide commenters have been whooshed. The whole point is that this bullshit has been peddled for years now and the public and CEOs still fall for it.
Just an early example of AI psychosis
Delusion happens.
It is interesting - and scary - how shallow the roots of our common sense can be.
Where's this from?
Age of Ultron, at the end of the movie
It means at least one Google engineer is full of shit.
I can't believe this was already four years ago. Not much of LLMs have seen the same level of improvements I find. Certainly has not, at least to me, shown any signs of sentience.
The ELIZA effect was discovered in the 1960ies.
Eliza was total crap, it took seconds to detect it was an incredibly obvious rearrangement of words you used yourself.
All it had was some superficial understanding of how a sentence is structured, it then used that to "respond" using your own words.
Eliza was freeware in the early 80's, and it was only interesting for 5 minutes tops. Of which the 4 minutes were used to make it say incredibly stupid things, because the patterns it used were so obvious.
This reminds me on the reports that some native American people thought that taking a photography of them would rob them of their soul.
Or that many things that doctors do today as a matter of routine would have left them being burned as a witch in earlier times.
Speaking of things that robots should do:
Those things, Pinker says, include dangerous and boring occupations, and tasks around the house, from cleaning to child care.
I have the feeling that people paying more attention to their addictive-by-design smartphone than to their baby might have really negative consequences.
From 2022 my dude...
aura McQuillan · CBC News · Posted: Jun 24, 2022 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: June 24, 2022
Yeah, this is what the "(2022)" in the title was trying to tell you.
It doesn't mean anything when the claim was already thoroughly debunked 4 years ago...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/13/tech/google-ai-not-sentient/index.html
The news isn't that AI obviously is not sentient.
The news is that even some relatively smart people can be induced to think it is.
Relatively smart people believe boneheaded things all the time, and have done so throughout history. Extreme case: Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. "In his autobiography, Mullis professed a belief in astrology and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien."
And already proven wrong, 4 years ago. This isn't a revelation.