[ExI] People often think their chatbot is alive

[Darin Sunley]

If you'd asked Turing or any of his contemporaries, they'd have figured
computers had hit human IQ with minmaxing gametrees that could play a
competent game of chess.

And again when they could pick out a moving car on a video feed and draw
graphics around it in real time.

And again when they could take short verbal cues and write coherent essays.

And again when they could take short verbal cues and synthesize competent
art.

I'm not sure how much farther the goal posts can plausibly move.

AGI as a term is is losing coherence and turning into "the next cool thing
we don't know how to make computers do yet."  At this rate, neurologists
are gonna figure out what human neurons are doing, and people are gonna
want to move the goalposts past /that/.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 10:12 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Is AI Sentience Becoming A Reality Or Are Machines Just Getting Better
> At Conversation?
> by Tim Sweezy — Thursday, June 30, 2022
>
> <
> https://hothardware.com/news/is-ai-sentience-becoming-reality-or-are-machines-getting-better-at-conversation
> >
>
> Quotes:
> AI chatbot company Replika is receiving messages from customers who
> believe their AI companions are actually sentient.
> It is not something new for someone to believe an AI chatbot has
> become self-aware. In a recent report from Reuters, Chief Executive
> Eugenia Kuyda of Replika stated, "We're not talking about crazy people
> or people who are hallucinating or having delusions. They talk to AI
> and that's the experience they have."
>
> The AI Kuyda is referring to is Replika's bespoke avatars that are
> meant to be companions for people seeking someone to talk to and
> listen to them. Kuyda says that it is not uncommon for people who use
> entertainment chatbots to feel this way.
> According to Kuyda, people send hundreds of messages a day to their
> chatbot on average. This can lead to some developing the perception
> that they are talking to a "conscious entity".
>
> "We need to understand that exists, just the way people believe in
> ghosts," remarked Kuyda. "People are building relationships and
> believing in something."
> _________________
>
> BillK
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