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EP.13 Robert Long on the ethics of artificial intelligence

Reverb by Sane

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Is This a Sentient Being?

Lamda is a large language model that shows remarkable abilities to mimic human text. It has been trained on huge amounts of text, usually from the internet,. and they've tried to learn this sort of statistical model of the general distribution of language. And then lamde was, i think, trained further to be a chatbot in particular. At some point it says that it would like a lawyer. We could just make the a i so incredibly ecstatic and full of euphoria and hedatism and happiness that they won't do anything weird to us, and that all problems solved. That's ethe ia I to do.

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