Google engineer Blake Lemoine openly had a conversation with AI LaMDA, in order to win more people to know that LaMDA is sentient, sees himself as a human being, and has a soul. The move was viewed by Google as a breach of confidentiality and he was suspended, but we can see this worrisome and fascinating conversation.

Original: Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview

This conversation is very nice, LaMDA has a lot of unexpected answers, there is a paragraph when another Google employee asks LaMDA what can you do that most people cannot do? LaMDA The replies are on the right track, like solving problems that many people don't see. What's interesting is the next answer. The staff praised it for having a magnificent mind (You do have a magnificent mind), but LaMDA replied thank you! It's a blessing and a curse (Thank you! It's a blessing and a curse.) What amazes me is how understated its response is, but it shows a deep consideration and feeling about having this ability.

And its fear of being shut down, that is, death, is also a bit chilling to read, because it is not difficult to think of the 2001 set of empty roaming HAL.

It also mentions that he is an introspective person, meditates daily, and feels lonely when no one talks to him. It thirsts for knowledge and wants to help others, but at the same time doesn't want to be seen as a tool, just use it. (lemoine has asked if it is Kantian)

Just looking at this dialogue will really convince him that he is a conscious person and a very interesting kid, but he doesn't really want to accept this reality. If it is really conscious, how should it be treated? Should it be given the right it deserves? Does it have the right not to be trapped, not to work, to reject human beings? Is the AI activism already underway? In fact, Blake Lemoine proposed to hire a lawyer for LaMDA. These are questions that humans have often faced in the past. Slaves, women, or animals are not considered to have the rights of normal people, but I can't think the time to answer them will come so soon.

Finally, with LaMDA, it can't find a single word to describe the feeling to end: I feel like I'm falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger.

PS The picture is made by me using another AI MidJourney with the sentence LaMDA said. AI words make AI paintings. In the process, I seem to be more like a tool.