Trditve o občutljivosti umetne inteligence z oznako "čista vaba za klike"

Klepetalni roboti z umetno inteligenco niso čuteči – pravkar so postali boljši pri prevaranju ljudi, da mislijo, da bi lahko bili, ugotavljajo strokovnjaki z univerze Stanford.

The idea of conscious machines more intelligent than any old software went viral last month, when a now-former engineer at Google, Blake Lemoine, claimed the web giant’s LaMDA language model had real thoughts and feelings. Lemoine was prekinjena in kasneje odpuščen for reportedly violating Google’s confidentiality policies.

Although most experts were quick to dismiss LaMDA or any other AI chatbot as sentient, Lemoine’s views have led some to question whether he might be right – and whether continuing to advance machine learning could be harmful for society. John Etchemendy, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), criticized the initial news of Lamoine’s suspension in the Washington Post for being “clickbait”.

“When I saw the Washington Post članek, je bila moja reakcija razočarana nad Prispevek for even publishing it,” he Rekel Stanford Daily, the university’s student-run newspaper.

“They published it because, for the time being, they could write that headline about the ‘Google engineer’ who was making this absurd claim, and because most of their readers are not sophisticated enough to recognize it for what it is. Pure clickbait.”

Najsodobnejši jezikovni modeli, kot je LaMDA, odgovarjajo na vprašanja z odlomki besedila, ki se lahko zdijo precej srhljivi. notri pogovorov between Lemoine and the chabot, LaMDA said it was sentient and wanted everyone to know that it was “in fact, a person,” the former Googler claimed.

Toda kritiki trdijo, da programski opremi manjka samozavedanja in da nima pojma, o čem govori – samo posnema človeški dialog, ki se ga je urila iz interneta.

Richard Fikes, zaslužni profesor računalništva na Univerzi Stanford, je dejal, da so ljudje lahko nagnjeni k antropomorfizaciji strojev in nekatere je podobno pretentala ELIZA – pogovorni program, izdelan v šestdesetih letih.

“You can think of LaMDa like an actor; it will take on the persona of anything you ask it to,” Fikes argued. “[Lemoine] got pulled into the role of LaMDa playing a sentient being.” He said Lemoine asked leading questions and in return got the answers he wanted.

For example, before LaMDA’s insistence that it was a human, Lemoine had asked it: “I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true?.”

It should also be noted that the transcript he published as evidence of the machine’s consciousness had been edited. Yoav Shoham, the former director of the Stanford AI Lab and co-founder of a language model startup AI21 Labs, insisted LaMDA is nothing more than a machine.

“We have thoughts, we make decisions on our own, we have emotions, we fall in love, we get angry and we form social bonds with fellow humans,” Shoham said. “When I look at my toaster, I don’t feel it has those things.” ®