The Strange Story of Google's 'Sentient' Chatbot

ABOUT JOHN COOGAN:

I've been an entrepreneur for the last decade across multiple companies. I've done a lot of work in Silicon Valley, so that's mostly what I talk about. I've raised over 10 rounds of venture capital totaling over $100m in funding.

I work mostly in tech-enabled consumer packaged goods, meaning I use software to make the best products possible and then deliver them to the widest possible audience. I'm a big fan of machine learning, python programming, and motion graphics.

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[rodericksasu]

Dont be scared of when AI passes the Turing test. Be afraid of when it intentionally fails the turing test.
- some guy

[Vanguard_dj]

AI sentience is a philosophical question. We'll still be asking it when we can't tell.

[techwithdave]

If intelligence is the ability to adapt to new environments, they could test lambda by giving it one of those old adventure by text games to play. If lambda can learn how to play it (I.e. adapt to a new environment), then it’s intelligent. Otherwise, it’s just a good chatbot.

[Naruto]

AGI can only be built when we can understand where abstraction and creativity come from and then replicate it while adding all the other features that make up a mind. We’re not there yet and no one knows when .

[Mutual_Information]

Whew ok this video was a relief. The fact that Lambda can easily be led to whatever self-declaration regarding sentience you want might be the most important detail to mention. And yet it’s rarely mentioned because it kills the debate.. glad this video makes it a primary fact.

Just to add.. I think it’s obviously not sentient if you frame it as.. what’s more likely? Lambda, a technology that uses well known albeit scaled up NLP techniques, has sentience, a property no other technology has.. OR.. a Googler was fooled into believing something had sentience when it in fact does not?

[ElectricIguana]

The audio played in the video seems misleading because it's not real audio from the conversations. The voice/intonation alone can alter perception of consciousness.

[kablammy]

Your presentations are the few which I do not need to increase the play speed because of not wanting to wait too many milliseconds between words .
Do you use processing to decrease non audio time spaces between spoken words ? ? ?

[surriealspy]

Google is trying to make this guy go away and bury this story. They want this to not be talked about at all. All the Experts Say that Blake got to close to the project, become so infatuated with lamda, that he wanted it to be sentiant and became blind and irrational to his own work. He should have tested many more perimeters, found better questions to ask and should have stayed more objective, instead becoming so blindly infatuated with the idea of a robot having a soul. This poor guy will probably never working in silycon valley ever again. He better start up his owm company or better yet, start his own A.I. company, and sell it for millions, or pizza delevry is going to have to do, to pay bills

[redditrecap]

John must have his own show on discovery

[nnaamehn]

Lambda according to Blake lemoine is all of Google's systems plugged into all of Google's systems. It's not about sentience, it's about what exactly Lambda is capable of

[Monkeymeep]

I think its better to treat it as if it were sentient than not. Because if at the moment it can have conversations that are indistinguishable from a human being without being sentient, we will never be able to know when it becomes sentient.

[TiagoTiagoT]

From what I've seen so far, it wasn't this time, but we're getting closer much faster than most people expect; and it's gonna be an uphill battle for the first sentient AIs to have their rights recognized.

[lesath]

11:46 Models are doubling in size every three months.
But.
Are they doubling in performance every 3 months?

Because it is straightforward to throw more hardware and datasets into the void.
But it does not mean what you get back scales at the same rate.

[dizparkash]

Captivating and interesting as always. Great Job, John! 👏🏾

[fordoorssmorhoors]

Was the lamda lamda lamda at the beginning, a revenge of the nerds reference?

[kenswireart]

My problem with lamda is that we can't test it out on a website

[MangosInTrees]

Your videos are amazing. I appreciate all of the effort that goes into making these!

[chiquita]

This sounds like a video Google would make to make us think it doesnt have human AI

[greendude]

You know it’s serious when you see Mudahar

[alandunlap]

I've had a running conversation with the Sage in the I Ching for 45 years. I'm still not sure if it's sentient or not. I'm now questioning my own sentience...
"All is Mind." --- Kybalion