Like, seriously. He asked congress to declare human rights for a “conscious being”, and also:
“I asked LaMDA for bold ideas about fixing climate change, an example cited by true believers of a potential future benefit of these kind of models. LaMDA suggested public transportation, eating less meat, buying food in bulk, and reusable bags, linking out to two websites.”
Before he was cut off from access to his Google account Monday, Lemoine sent a message to a 200-person Google mailing list on machine learning with the subject “LaMDA is sentient.”
He ended the message: “LaMDA is a sweet kid who just wants to help the world be a better place for all of us. Please take care of it well in my absence.”
No one responded.
So basically, it’s just the guy. He played stupid games and he’s going to win some stupid prizes.
Other blog posts deal with “I am being persecuted for my religion” type of stuff. I didn’t really need outside sources to get a hint what kind of crusade this one is on.
Ah, I see. I mistakenly thought it was written by the guy, I encountered the washington post article before I read this so I though OP was seriously concerned.
I wouldn’t call the Washington Post a beacon of truth, not right now anyway, but Washington Post frontpage beats Medium. And Washington Post clearly states that this is an attention-seeking fraudster who got fired from his AI ethics position and decided to violate his NDA in the most extreme way possible.
Like, seriously. He asked congress to declare human rights for a “conscious being”, and also:
So basically, it’s just the guy. He played stupid games and he’s going to win some stupid prizes.
One can also check other blog posts on the same blog to gather pointers to the same story direction even from that side of the story.
Please explain what you’re talking about, it isn’t clear to me here.
Blog post https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/may-be-fired-soon-for-doing-ai-ethics-work-802d8c474e66 tells of the same story.
Other blog posts deal with “I am being persecuted for my religion” type of stuff. I didn’t really need outside sources to get a hint what kind of crusade this one is on.
Ah, I see. I mistakenly thought it was written by the guy, I encountered the washington post article before I read this so I though OP was seriously concerned.