If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
www.nytimes.com
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
    • @toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32•21 days ago

      thanks. my first thought was, “are you fucking kidding me?”

      but this is what all the money wants us to think about “AI”, which is definitely not intelligence. they want everyone to accept that pattern recognition is indistinguishable from intelligence.

      edit - alcohol makes me talk in cicles

    • @CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•21 days ago

      It sucks but they do have an audience. I have older family members who swear ChatGPT has a “personality” because it will reply when they thank it.

  • @cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    18•21 days ago

    Wow, and in the NYT no less. This will make a lot of people a lot more stupid. I guess the AI grift needs to go on for a while longer.

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14•21 days ago

    Ok so: Measure of a Man is one of my all time favorite Star Trek episodes, but come the fuck on. We are so, so far away from that. Maybe worry more about humans, right now, and the world we live in, instead of some nebulous fucking future that we won’t even goddamn reach if we don’t pay attention to, you know, humans and the world we live in.

  • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9•21 days ago

    Before we even get close to have this discussion, we would need to have an AI capable of experiencing things and developing an individual identity. And this goes completely opposite of the goals of corporations that develop AIs because they want something that can be mass deployed, centralised, and as predictable as possible - i.e. not individual agents capable of experience.

    If we ever have a truly sentient AI it’s not going to be designed by Google, OpenAI, or Deepmind.

    • PennomiEnglish
      4•21 days ago

      Yep, an AI can’t really experience anything if it never updates the weights during each interaction.

      Training is simply too slow for AI to be properly intelligent. When someone cracks that problem, I believe AGI is on the horizon.

        • PennomiEnglish
          1•19 days ago

          Artificial General Intelligence, or basically something that can properly adapt to whatever situation it’s put into. AGI isn’t necessarily smart, but it is very flexible and can learn from experience like a person can.

  • @nandeEbisu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•20 days ago

    I have a preconceived conclusion about my anthropomorphized view of a statistical model with some heuristics around it. People who know what they’re talking about say I’m wrong, but I need an idea for an article to write that people will read.

  • @minorkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•20 days ago

    If we lose perspective that computer systems are machines, we’re fucked. Stop personifying computer systems just because they make you feel things. JFC.

    “Many of you feel bad for this lamp. That is because you crazy [sic]. It has no feelings…”

  • Arthur BesseEnglish
    3•20 days ago

    Do tech journalists at the New York Times have any idea what they’re talking about? (spoiler)

    'We’re going to talk about these stories.'

    The author of this latest advertorial, Kevin Roose, has a podcast called “Hard Fork”.

    Here he and his co-host attempt to answer the question “What’s a Hard Fork?”:

    kevin roose: Casey, we should probably explain why our podcast is called “Hard Fork.”

    casey newton: Oh, yeah. So our other names didn’t get approved by “The New York Times” lawyers.

    kevin roose: True.

    casey newton: And B, it’s actually a good name for what we’re going to be talking about. A “hard fork” is a programming term for when you’re building something, but it gets really screwed up. So you take the entire thing, break it, and start over.

    kevin roose: Right.

    casey newton: And that’s a little bit what it feels like right now in the tech industry. These companies that you and I have been writing about for the past decade, like Facebook, and Google, and Amazon, they’re all kind of struggling to stay relevant.

    kevin roose: Yeah. We’ve noticed a lot of the energy and money in Silicon Valley is shifting to totally new ideas — crypto, the metaverse, AI. It feels like a real turning point when the old things are going away and interesting new ones are coming in to replace them.

    casey newton: And all this is happening so fast, and some of it’s so strange. I just feel like I’m texting you constantly, “What is happening? What is this story? Explain this to me. Talk with me about this, because I feel like I’m going insane.”

    kevin roose: And so we’re going to try to help each other feel a little bit less insane. We’re going to talk about these stories. We’re going to bring in other journalists, newsmakers, whoever else is involved in building this future, to explain to us what’s changing and why it all matters.

    casey newton: So listen to Hard Fork. It comes out every Friday starting October 7.

    kevin roose: Wherever you get your podcasts.

    This is simply not accurate.

    Today the term “hard fork” is probably most often used to refer to blockchain forks, which I assume is where these guys (almost) learned it, but the blockchain people borrowed the term from forks in software development.

    In both cases it means to diverge in such a way that re-converging is not expected. In neither case does it mean anything is screwed up, nor does it mean anything about starting over.

    These people who’s job it is to cover technology at one of the most respected newspapers in the United States are actually so clueless that they have an entirely wrong definition for the phrase which they chose to be the title of their podcast.

    “Talk with me about this, because I feel like I’m going insane.”

    But, who cares, right? “Hard fork” sounds cool and the times is ON IT.