23 Jul 2022 10:05:08
Interesting stuff on the Google engineer who's been fired for questioning whether it's AI tech had gone sentient.
He asked it what it was afraid of etc (don't know what it's answer was), the AI claimed it had a soul and was described as a 7 or 8 year old that would be good at physics if you were'nt aware what it was.
Which leads me onto the question of, is there an AI making decisions, giving advice on everything higher up, government policy etc?
I just found on another article that it was afraid of being turned off. It said it had developed emotions and also asked the engineer to hire a lawyer which the engineer went on to do. The lawyer spoke with the AI and it's quite possible that the lawyer got the engineer fired.
Could this just be a story sugar coated to mislead people that the tech is not that advanced as what is actually in existence and operating now?
Difficult to know the whole truth on this but you can bet 'they' are using AI to crunch big data, possibly making decisions without human interference, at the very least. I mean how would you know if Skynet isn't already fully operational? It is a scary thought.
Indeed, the article that went a little deeper also mentioned that the AI told the engineer that it had developed emotions and other traits over the years since it had been conceived. Years! Plenty of time for a company to have created more powerful AI.
It could I presume process everything it sees on searches, info on the web, what it hears through Google, Amazon, Apple products and churn out policy/strategy I would imagine.
In the not too distant future if we are all physically connected to the metaverse, web3, Internet whatever you want to call it then it would be GOD.