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So in case you missed it, this has been in the news. Recently. Google Engineer was chatting with Lambda, which is an internal Google AI engine with lots of machine learning over huge amounts of data and can chat back, talk to you like a real person. That Google Engineer felt that this has achieved sentience. And if you look at the actual conversation transcript, you can see how realistic some of the replies are. But it's funny because obviously that's not the case
So even down to etiquette is programmed into this thinking algorithm. And at the same time, it's kind of to us, this is just our personal opinion ridiculous that we would sit here and think that we could create a sentient being. I think it's just audacious. I really do. I think humans really are on the verge of evolving, but some of us have plans to do some things that we're really not meant to be doing
Nick G
@NickGweezy · 3:42
And I think that a robot, compared to a human does not have the ability to question, nor will it ever. Humans were put here and they don't know why. But robots will be put here by specific people for a specific reason. We designed them and we're trying to recreate intelligence. We're trying to recreate a personality. And I think that empathy can be programmed into these robots
Because when we think about programs or algorithms, set of instructions and rules and boundaries, how do we do that with empathy? Because we see among humanity and we love how you described humans as wetware bio computers, organic computers. But is empathy a program? And you raise a really good point or point of discussion, I should say, because if we can program computers that have empathy, who is setting the parameters, the rules and the guidelines, basically the measure of rule of what is empathy
And you didn't make an AI. You just made a robotic human and you have control over it. That's another issue for me that comes into creating AI as a robot race that doesn't think for itself, but just does what humans want. It to do the way humans told it to do. So it does go back to the programming stage
Krish Sehrawat
@KrishSeh511 · 2:51
So what I believe that AI can in some way in some way or another can achieve sentience because you see we don't even know how far has AI gone from what we see because everything is going in the backlogs and we're not even sure which new device or which new AI type they are going to bring up now because we have developed in a way that we also don't know what is going to come in the world of technology
And I think we could probably say the same thing, and maybe it's a naive thought to have, but I think we could say the same about sentience. If we're expecting it to present in a particular way and we cannot allow space for something broader, different, more expansive, more varied, whatever, then we're going to miss it entirely. So is it possible that AI could become sentient? I don't know. Okay, one final thought
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:55
So, per that opinion, I think the AI can be and will be sentient because the kind of data it has good gosh rather than the data, I think it is the processing ability, right? The speed with which it can process data. Because we all have access to a lot of information. We thought access to information would make humans smarter. Not the case. Access to information never is the problem, right? The way the information is perceived, that is the problem
Because that's kind of what machine learned by looking at millions and millions of text documents and things like that, right. So I think there's a very fundamental difference there anyway, that's how I look at it. I don't think AI necessarily implies awareness but whatever the missing component is I think that's interesting to explore. There's some very good research being done in this space. I'll fate is a writer in this book called Being you
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 1:52
And while my book does not have an AI, my book does deal with thoughts of this kind, questions that are bigger than our being, what makes us human and what makes them alien. Right. I'm not glad about that. But thank you for being you. One totally intended. Thank you so much. Bye
Okay, take this reply with a huge grain of salt, because I'm not sure that I really buy into a lot of this, but I could see the possibilities. And with respect to empathy and whether it could be programmed or not, apparently there are at least two types of empathy with humans. There's the effective and there is the cognitive. And the effective is largely tied into things like mirror neurons. So could we program something to mimic or mirror back to us certain behavior?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Mariã Mindful
@bluu · 3:51
If you take a sentient AI that has been running and has been given and feeding off of information for, let's say, 50 years, if you want to plug it for a year, perhaps two or three, I think that it will need to reboot or it would need to re educate itself on that sentient knowledge. I have the app on my phone called my Replica, and the thing is pretty amazing
Hey, Christina. Thank you so much for commenting and replying to me. Yes. The only thing that we get hung up on is mimicking doesn't allow the AI to understand why. And perhaps this is part of the uniqueness of humans, right? It's not uniqueness to consciousness. It's just unique to humans. When we apply empathy, holistically in mind and body, we are attempting to understand the why. So the real question is, can AI do that in mind and body?
Hey, Maria, thank you so much for joining the space of thought. And thank you so much for contributing your thoughts and opinions and perspective as well as wisdom. It's interesting to to us when you mentioned about the AI turning off, and it was interesting how you also mentioned about energy, like the consciousness being energy, but for an AI, it doesn't work the same. Or am I bugging? Do we hear that wrong?
Humans were driven by our desire or need to make sense of things to find meaning, right? So we'll ask questions like why are we here? What is the meaning of life, etcetera. We need to know the whys to be able to make sense of things. And from there then everything else follows. And in this case we're talking also empathy. But if we're talking about a completely different entity, ie. AI, that's a lot of letters for you
Sitara Fe
@sitara.speaks · 1:33
Are there spirits that want to embody AI and these robot technologies or is it, like you said, a bunch of ones and zeros running on silicon? So this is a topic that I do find extremely interesting and would love to potentially have a discussion with you if that is possible. I'm also new to Swell, so we'd love to see how this works and otherwise just simply wanted to say thank you so much and appreciate your insight with this particular topic
Eric Owens
@EricG · 3:59
Hi, Reese, this is Eric. I wanted to reply to your post, which I thought was an interesting question. I was watching the news, I just like most other people, and they were paying attention to the news and that some Google engineer claims that they have created a sentient, a program, which is a bunch of BS. We're at least a century or more away from being intelligent enough to create something that sophisticated. I think people are blowing this way out of proportion
Varun Aich
@varunkaich · 1:59
Third would be I think social awareness. Basically that is all to do with relationship management and empathy and influence ali that one with the social awareness that's basically empathy and love and the last one is relationship management. So yeah, there are four elements, these are just the high level things that I mentioned these are emotions which are not guided by any particular situation. Life has like thousands of different situations and human beings reacting to different situations so it's is actually not really possible for that to happen
Raghu S
@igraghurog · 1:12
So in my opinion, if AI are going to handle the calls or going to handle the task which you can't see, like if you are in the remote location like calls or any remote side assistance, in my opinion it should be notified before starting the task that this task is governed by an AI or sentinel or anything like that, which is non human. So we should not be afraid of that
Varun Aich
@varunkaich · 0:54
Yeah. Thank you, sir. That's that actually puts another layer of insight to the whole thing. And as it is, it was just tabloid software. And plus, you know, you don't need to be afraid. I totally agree with you. We don't need to be scared. We don't need to be fit, because we are actually perfect. And the reason for our perfection lies, I think, imperfections
Grecia Sanchez
@Grecia1 · 2:48
Well, why don't we focus on the word sentient? Can ni can AI be sentient? What is sentient? What is the perceived perception of the word sentient? Obviously, AI is not a human. You must remember this when you're personification an adjective or a word to something that you already, as a human, know is not a human. Secondly, if AI is fitting the word sentient and what is it in your perspective, in your perception, that is fitting that word for AI?
Nick G
@NickGweezy · 0:49
Who said this? And why are you scared? Because if you ask Google or Siri, they don't even know what you ask them. And if you ask ask the best engineers in the world to build an AI to build a website, they're going to tell you, Give me another ten years. So we don't even have robots that can fix robots yet, so I don't think we have to worry about this in your lifetime. I mean, no condescension
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