ITEM
The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test Item Info
- Title:
- The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test
- Creator:
- Watts, P.
- Date Created:
- 2022-06-20
- Description:
- Peter Watts (scifi author, biologist, and guy who blogged the process of dealing with flesh-eating bacteria) comments on the 2022 LaMDA controversy, when a Google software engineer claimed that Google's LLM had gained sentience. He discusses the idea of a "Jovian Duck".
- Subjects:
- ethics AGI critique blog
- Resource URL:
- https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=10269
- Annotation:
- Watts argues that any "AI" program that seems to speak intelligibly to humans is likely a false positive for actual sentience/intelligence (as the systems by which a digital "intelligence" would think would be wholly alien to us and our "wetware" systems).
- Submitter:
- Hamilton, Brian
- Added:
- October 2024
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "The Jovian Duck: LaMDA and the Mirror Test", AI.LD,
- Reference Link:
- https://elibtronic.github.io/AIL_Database/items/ail_049.html