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‘I’m the psychedelic confessor’: the man who turned a generation on to hallucinogens returns with a head-spinning book about consciousness

With the Omnivore’s Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan transformed our understanding of food and drugs. Can he do the same for our sense of self?

The Guardian - UK

“This Is Crazy”: Creepy Robot With Eerily Human Face Leaves Onlookers Horrified

“He warned that once machines cross the line of mimicking emotion, the collapse starts quietly."

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We should have paid more attention to Blake Lemoine...and Joseph Weizenbaum

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is not the first to ring alarm bells about AI chatbots that seem all too alive. It's time AI companies do more to design their chatbots to seem less like people.

Fortune

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'Foolhardy at best, and deceptive and dangerous at worst': Don't believe the hype — here's why artificial general intelligence isn't what the billionaires tell you it is

"Unfortunately, the goal of creating artificial general intelligence isn’t just a project that lives as a hypothetical in scientific papers. There’s real money invested in this work, much of it coming from venture capitalists."

LiveScience

AI models might be drawn to ‘spiritual bliss’. Then again, they might just talk like hippies

When multibillion-dollar AI developer Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week, a surprising word turned up several times in the accompanying “system card”: spiritual.

The Conversation

AI Models Choose Nuclear Attacks Over Peace As The US Implements The Technology Into Its Arsenal

Ex-Google engineer and AI pioneer Blake Lemoine claimed that artificial intelligence will start wars and could be used for assassination.

International Business Times UK

Why ChatGPT isn’t conscious – but future AI systems might be

In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should assume it possessed a similar awareness of the world.

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3 times AI has given us a sentience scare as Snapchat’s chat bot goes rogue

Artificial intelligence, mankind’s latest Icarus moment, is the hot new thing taking the world by storm. But it could be about to take the world by force, too.

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‘The Godfather of AI’ leaves Google and rings alarm bells — here’s why

‘The Godfather of AI’ Dr. Geoffrey Hinton has left Google after nearly a decade. Here’s why he felt compelled to leave, and recent comments from other AI experts who don’t quite agree with his alarmist viewpoint.

Tom’s Guide

A.I. needs ‘a new space in our world,’ says fired Google engineer

A.I. will integrate with humanity in one way or another, and Blake Lemoine has thoughts on how that might best play out.

Fortune

Bard: how Google’s chatbot gave me a comedy of errors

It is connected to the live internet, but this AI tool seems trained to give the least insightful answers

The Guardian - UK

Where is the AI arms race leading us?

University of Washington professor Chirag Shah speaks to Salon about where the AI explosion is heading

Salon

The fired Google engineer who thought its AI could be sentient says Microsoft's chatbot feels like 'watching the train wreck happen in real time'

Recent outings by Microsoft and Google have done little to change a former Google employee's views on A.I.'s dangers.

Fortune

ChatGPT's edge: We want to believe

Our brains, ever on the hunt for signs of life, are primed to see a chatbot's typing as human.

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The Conversation

ChatGPT: Chatbots can help us rediscover the rich history of dialogue

It is time to take human-AI dialogue seriously again. With the release of sophisticated chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, effective human-AI dialogue has become interesting and accessible to everyone. Even to students writing essays, which has led to some academic concerns.

The Guardian - UK

‘I am, in fact, a person’: can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?

Controversy over Google’s AI program is raising questions about just how powerful it is. Is it even safe? By Amelia Tait

The Conversation

Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?

What was your first reaction when you heard about Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who announced last month the AI program he was working on had developed consciousness?

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Google fires software engineer who says AI chatbot LaMDA has feelings

Tech giant Google has sacked a senior software engineer who published a transcript of a conversation he had with chatbot LaMDA, in which it says it has a soul and a "very deep fear of being turned off".

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Google fires software engineer who claimed AI chatbot was sentient

Blake Lemoine was placed on leave in June after claiming the AI resembled ‘a seven or eight-year-old kid’

The Guardian - UK

Google fires software engineer who claims AI chatbot is sentient

Company said Blake Lemoine violated Google policies and that his claims were ‘wholly unfounded’

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Google Fires Software Engineer Who Claimed Its AI Chatbot Is Sentient

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.

The Guardian - US

From Hitchhiker’s Paranoid Android to Wall-E: why are pop culture robots so sad?

‘Sentient’ AI seems to shoulder the weight of the world. Maybe we humans want it that way

The Conversation

Rather than focus on the speculative rights of sentient AI, we need to address human rights

A flurry of activity occurred on social media after Blake Lemoine a Google developer, was placed on leave for claiming that LaMDA, a chatbot, had become sentient — in other words, had acquired the ability to experience feelings. In support of his claim, Lemoine posted excerpts from an exchange with…

The Guardian - AU

Even if they’re not actually intelligent, AIs may shift the nature of human expression itself

Impressive pattern-matching machines like DALL-E 2 and GPT-3 may not understand meaning, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t radically disruptive

Daily Mirror

Google's AI chatbot hires lawyer as engineer put on leave after 'sentient' claim

Google scientific engineer Blake Lemoine claims an AI chatbot is displaying human emotions, but was suspended after sharing a transcript on online platform Medium

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