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Astonishing Legends

I Think Therefore AI Part 2

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

As we continue our discussion based on Blake Lemoine’s assertion that the Large Language Model chatbot LaMDA had become sentient, we relay the rest of his conversation with the program and then some questions and answers with Lemoine himself. But as Lemoine has said, machine sentience and personhood are just some of many questions to be considered. His greater issue is how an omnipresent AI, trained on an insufficient data set, will affect how different people and cultures interact and who will be dominated or excluded. The fear is that the ultimate result of protecting corporate profits will outweigh global human interests. In light of these questions about AI’s ethical and efficient development, we highlight the positions and insights of experts on the state and future of AI, such as Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Gary Marcus. The directives of responsible technology development and the right track to Deep Learning are more grounded than the fantastical thoughts of killer robots. Yet hovering over all of the mechanics are the philosophies of what constitutes sentience, comprehending and feeling as a person does, and being human enough. The reality of Artificial Intelligence matching humans may be fifty years in the future, or five hundred, but if that day ever comes, let’s hope it’s an egalitarian future where we are the masters and not the servants.

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0:00.0

A battle has been waging on since the invention of the wheel, the battle for the front seat.

0:06.4

Bugsie front seat!

0:07.7

It's that innate human desire to own the view, the space, the power.

0:14.2

The all new Honda H RV hybrid is here to bring about peace with back seats that feel as good as the front.

0:21.8

Awesome in the back!

0:22.8

The raised chassis and low window frames from front to back if everyone the views.

0:27.1

The fuel tank hump is gone for more foot space and the leg room is roomy.

0:31.2

And in terms of power, there's USB ports in the back too.

0:34.4

So everyone's a...

0:35.5

We know!

0:36.4

Honda, the power of dreams, available on selected grades.

1:04.4

Scott, do we have like 90 seconds to talk about something completely different?

1:07.9

What is Richard's cat's name and are they a flurkin?

1:11.3

It's a great segue.

1:12.5

You're allowed to go to the bathroom.

1:14.9

Rich, were you gonna say something?

1:16.3

Probably but I think I forgot.

1:20.0

Estonishing legends would like to thank Wendrium,

1:22.7

Quip, Mint Mobile, ClickUp, Squarespace,

1:26.4

our contributors at patreon.com and you are listeners for making tonight's show possible.

1:31.6

Two weeks ago, we brought you the story of an artificial intelligence chatbot that at least one

1:38.4

researcher at Google thought had achieved sentience.

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