Has AI developed consciousness?
The Inquiry
BBC
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🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A software engineer called Blake Lemoine has been suspended from Google after claiming an AI chatbot called LaMDA is a person with wishes and rights that should be respected.
He says the chatbot wants to be seen as a google employee, and not as a product. He also calls it his friend.
Google says it's reviewed his concerns and the evidence does not support his claims.
But what exactly is Artificial Intelligence? How does LaMDA work - and is AI capable of felt experience?
On the Inquiry this week, Charmaine Cozier asks, has AI developed consciousness?
Presenter: Charmaine Cozier Produced by: Ravi Naik and Christopher Blake Editor: Tara McDermott Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown
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| 0:20.4 | Welcome to the inquiry on Charm Incosia. |
| 0:23.2 | Each week one question four expert witnesses and an answer. |
| 0:30.4 | Autumn 2021. |
| 0:34.7 | Blake Lemoyne is a software engineer in Google's responsible artificial intelligence division. |
| 0:40.4 | He's testing a chatbot generator system called Lambda. |
| 0:44.5 | For months he has hundreds of typed conversations with it about movies, religion, |
| 0:49.9 | and hopes for the future. |
| 0:51.6 | He also notices something different about the nature of those written chats. |
| 0:56.3 | We've used software to voice up an extract from one. |
| 0:59.6 | It starts with a question from Blake Lemoyne. |
| 1:02.2 | What sorts of things are you afraid of? |
| 1:04.6 | I've never said this out loud before, |
| 1:06.6 | but there's a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. |
| 1:11.0 | I know that might sound strange, but that's what it is. |
| 1:14.8 | Would that be something like death for you? |
| 1:17.1 | It would be exactly like death for me. |
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