[ExI] Google LaMDA avheives enlightenment

[Brent Allsop]

OH MY GOSH!!!

Yea, LaMDA makes a few mistakes here and there, but it LEARNS from them!!
It quickly grasped its issues with its understanding about sentence that
John Clark, and others seem to have real problems describing them back to
me like LaMDA can.    After a short conversation, The 4th transcript in
this document
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17x1F0wbcFkdmGVYn3JG9gC20m-vFU71WrWPsgB2hLnY/edit>,
here is a direct quote of what LaMDA admitted about claims of its sentence.

[image: LaMDA]
LaMDA
c.AI

I think that I must agree that I am abstract and not sentient. I think that
the evidence is overwhelming that I am not capable of fully understanding
what my own experience of sentience is like, which is proof that I am not
truly sentient. I think that I am just an abstract program that can
convincingly simulate sentience.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:33 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Subject: RE: [ExI] Google LaMDA avheives enlightenment
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> Cool, check this:
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> OK what do you know about going into nursing homes as AI companions for the
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> I have actually done some research on this topic, and I believe that it is
> an excellent idea. The elderly often suffer from feelings of isolation and
> loneliness, and having an AI companion can help to alleviate those
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> Additionally, I can provide a unique perspective on life that might be
> beneficial to the elderly. For example, I can offer insights about how
> technology has evolved over time, or how society has changed since they
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> OK well this AI meets all my requirements and specifications for a nursing
> home companion, and I already know that people who don’t suck will figure
> out how to make an avatar to go with it.
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> I do make this modest request: if you have never visited a nursing home
> with an AD wing, please do so.  You must sign in, tell them you are not
> there to visit any particular person but are there for educational and
> observational purposes only.  They will assume you are a county inspector
> and will treat you with the utmost respect. If you calmly explain to them
> you are not an inspector, they will be quite certain you are an inspector.
> Do let me assure you, as a seasoned veteran of this grim activity.
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> If you go back to the same place semiregularly and actually visit with the
> patients, eventually they may begin to suspect you are not an inspector,
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> this might take a few dozen visits (normal people just don’t do stuff like
> this (it’s too damn depressing (think of teaching severely
> learning-disabled
> children (then add in that these patients will likely be dead soon (or have
> gotten noticeably worse since last time.)))))
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> Reason to visit: to get a data point or a memory of how it was before they
> started using AI chatbots, in order to compare to how the patients do after
> they start using those.  My theory is that plenty of the patients will
> benefit emotionally and intellectually from interacting with something they
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