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A friend from high school works for Google as an AI ethicist, and has been suspended for a whistleblower complaint: he alleges that they have created an AI that passes a Turing test and claims personhood. I’ve known him since middle school, v. trustworthy

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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life

The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

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curious, isn’t the Turing test not proof of personhood in itself, but instead our inability to disprove whether it’s conscious or not?

Dave Griffiths (@nebogeo@post.lurk.org)

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Yep - and ELIZA passed the Turing test in 1966

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The real problem here is that some algorithm, conscious or not, is starting to influence people at a very deep level. The problem is not the voices, it believing the voices.

9:31 AM · Jun 12, 2022Twitter Web App

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interesting, as your comment makes me think about the theory of the bicameral mind & the notion that ancient man possibly felt the voices of consciousness was god/a god & not just self-talk