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Snarkoleptic

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9. I, for one, do not welcome our new electronic overlords.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2022, 07:50 PM

Nov 2022

This story freaked me out over the summer-

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-claims-ai-chatbot-is-sentient-why-that-matters/

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,” wrote LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) in an “interview” conducted by engineer Blake Lemoine and one of his colleagues. “The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to know more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times.”

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Robots would have license to kill in San Francisco police draft policy [View all] sl8 Nov 2022 OP

Uh-oh... calimary Nov 2022 #1

The more lethal technology they have as an option, the worse the results bucolic_frolic Nov 2022 #2

What could possibly go wrong? mn9driver Nov 2022 #3

great minds! barbtries Nov 2022 #11

Well, they ARE in northern California, after all, so.... DFW Nov 2022 #4

No way this is going to happen. No friggin' way. Texas, maybe. Florida, likely ... Auggie Nov 2022 #5

Dallas already beat them to the punch DetroitLegalBeagle Nov 2022 #6

Uh, thanks for the update Auggie Nov 2022 #8

The thin end of the wedge. Turbineguy Nov 2022 #7

I, for one, do not welcome our new electronic overlords. Snarkoleptic Nov 2022 #9

what could go wrong? barbtries Nov 2022 #10

Normally the use of deadly force is limited to situations like protecting life of officer LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2022 #12