I would like to know if anyone believes the google LaMDA AI is sentient? I have worked in the field of engineering for over 30 years and the one thing missing in the conversation is any critical thinking.
Has anyone considered that this interaction is between a person that is helping to program the machine to reply the way he wants? Any machine is the product of what has been put into it. Unfortunately, we have been brainwashed by terminator movies that machines can independently think.
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AI is impossible
I have seen for myself what unlimited resources could get us.
Imagine you are climbing a mountain. Near the foothills, it looks like the peak is an easy day hike.
After night falls, you start to realize it is longer than a day hike. So you get camping gear and head out.
A few days in, and you realize you need rope and crampons. So you get the gear and head out.
A few weeks later you decide to screw it all and build a helicopter. But still the peak eludes you. You need a rocket.
So you build the rocket. And halfway to the moon you realize you need warp drive.
It is not that there is an insurmountable technical challenge. We are pecking away at the essence of the universe. Intelligence is not physical, and cannot be modeled with infinitely many computers in infinitely many universes. We can't even define it yet we know it when we see it.
The closest we will ever get are pattern matching scripts. In that sense, we beat the Turing Test decades ago. But really - that it distilled intelligence, not artificial intelligence.
God is real.