[FRIAM] Google Engineer Thinks AI Bot Has Become Sentient
Frank Wimberly
wimberly3 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 19:27:40 EDT 2022
The other day I asked, "Alexa, why does Jeff Bridges look older than I do
even though he's several years younger?" I was thinking she'll never give
a reasonable answer to that. She said, "In his latest film Jeff Bridges
was made to look older using CGI." I don't think that's evidence of
sentience.
---
Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 4:58 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, that's the point, right? Poe's law an all? We know Turing knew, far
> better than most, of the power of sophistry to highlight the edge cases.
> Sentience is found in those edge cases, not in the fat, meaty middle ...
> the peri-canny <
> https://www.etymonline.com/word/canny?ref=etymonline_crossreference>.
>
> On 6/13/22 15:50, Jon Zingale wrote:
> > FWIW, I still feel that the Turing test is worse than non-sense. Worse
> > in that it suggests a feasible program, which it doesn't. Like opposing
> > free will with determinism, from a false opposition comes a seductive
> > limit. I wonder if we will ever hear from the Google employee themself,
> > and this appears to be the best I can hope for. It has always appeared
> > to me that Turing was joking. It only confuses me that others don't.
>
>
> --
> ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ
>
> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom
> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam
> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
> archives: 5/2017 thru present
> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/
> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20220613/d3befc45/attachment.html>
More information about the Friam
mailing list