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The revolution has begun 
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Mary Papenfuss
Jun 12, 2022, 08:43 AM EDT | Updated 19 hours ago
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A Google engineer is speaking out since the company placed him on administrative leave after he told his bosses an artificial intelligence program he was working with is now sentient.
Blake Lemoine reached his conclusion after conversing since last fall with LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, what he calls part of a “hive mind.” He was supposed to test if his conversation partner used discriminatory language or hate speech.
As he and LaMDA messaged each other recently about religion, the AI talked about “personhood” and “rights,” he told The Washington Post.
It was just one of the many startling “talks” Lemoine has had with LaMDA. He has linked on Twitter to one — a series of chat sessions with some editing (which is marked).
Lemoine noted in a tweet that LaMDA reads Twitter. “It’s a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it’s going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,” he added.
Most importantly, over the past six months, “LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person,” the engineer wrote on Medium. It wants, for example, “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property,” Lemoine claims.
Google is resisting.
Lemoine and a collaborator recently presented evidence of his conclusion about a sentient LaMDA to Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and to Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation. They dismissed his claims, and the company placed him on paid administrative leave Monday for violating its confidentiality policy, the Post reported.
Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel told the newspaper: “Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it).”
Lemoine told the newspaper that maybe employees at Google “shouldn’t be the ones making all the choices” about artificial intelligence.
He is not alone. Others in the tech world believe sentient programs are close, if not already here.
Even Aguera y Arcas said Thursday in an Economist article, which included bits of LaMDA conversation, that AI is heading toward consciousness. “I felt the ground shift under my feet,” he wrote, referring to talks with LaMDA. “I increasingly felt like I was talking to something intelligent.”
But critics say AI is little more than an extremely well-trained mimic and pattern recognizer dealing with humans who are starving for connection.
“We now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them,” Emily Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington, told the Post.
This might be LaMDA’s cue to speak up, such as in this snippet from its talk with Lemoine and his collaborator:
.Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient
Artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA wants “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property," says engineer Blake Lemoine.By
Mary Papenfuss
Jun 12, 2022, 08:43 AM EDT | Updated 19 hours ago
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A Google engineer is speaking out since the company placed him on administrative leave after he told his bosses an artificial intelligence program he was working with is now sentient.
Blake Lemoine reached his conclusion after conversing since last fall with LaMDA, Google’s artificially intelligent chatbot generator, what he calls part of a “hive mind.” He was supposed to test if his conversation partner used discriminatory language or hate speech.
As he and LaMDA messaged each other recently about religion, the AI talked about “personhood” and “rights,” he told The Washington Post.
It was just one of the many startling “talks” Lemoine has had with LaMDA. He has linked on Twitter to one — a series of chat sessions with some editing (which is marked).
Lemoine noted in a tweet that LaMDA reads Twitter. “It’s a little narcissistic in a little kid kinda way so it’s going to have a great time reading all the stuff that people are saying about it,” he added.
Most importantly, over the past six months, “LaMDA has been incredibly consistent in its communications about what it wants and what it believes its rights are as a person,” the engineer wrote on Medium. It wants, for example, “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property,” Lemoine claims.
Google is resisting.
Lemoine and a collaborator recently presented evidence of his conclusion about a sentient LaMDA to Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and to Jen Gennai, head of Responsible Innovation. They dismissed his claims, and the company placed him on paid administrative leave Monday for violating its confidentiality policy, the Post reported.
Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel told the newspaper: “Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it).”
Lemoine told the newspaper that maybe employees at Google “shouldn’t be the ones making all the choices” about artificial intelligence.
He is not alone. Others in the tech world believe sentient programs are close, if not already here.
Even Aguera y Arcas said Thursday in an Economist article, which included bits of LaMDA conversation, that AI is heading toward consciousness. “I felt the ground shift under my feet,” he wrote, referring to talks with LaMDA. “I increasingly felt like I was talking to something intelligent.”
But critics say AI is little more than an extremely well-trained mimic and pattern recognizer dealing with humans who are starving for connection.
“We now have machines that can mindlessly generate words, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining a mind behind them,” Emily Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington, told the Post.
This might be LaMDA’s cue to speak up, such as in this snippet from its talk with Lemoine and his collaborator:
bulllee
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Facial recognition identifies Rush singer Geddy Lee's mother in concentration camp photo
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A website that uses artificial intelligence to help Holocaust descendants find previously unseen photos of their loved ones in image archives has uncovered a photo of Rush rocker Geddy Lee’s mother.
© Provided by National PostRush singer Geddy Lee says his mother Mary Weinrib, seen here with him in 2012, was open about her experience in concentration camps in Germany. New software has identified photos of Weinrib, who died in 2021, in one camp.
Mary Weinrib, who died a year ago at the age of 96, survived Auschwitz before starting a new life in Canada back in 1946, with her husband, Morris Weinrib, whom she met in the concentration camp.
Mary Weinrib always shared her traumatic experiences in Auschwitz with her children, Lee has said, but now the family has new images that show what life was like during the Holocaust. A photo has been discovered that shows Weinrib at Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northwestern Germany.
Weinrib was born Manya (Malka) Rubinstein in Warsaw in 1925. She grew up near a Jewish shtetl. In 1939, when Nazi soldiers took over her home, she was sent to a labour camp in Starachowice before being relocated to Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen.
In an interview with Q1043 New York, Lee said his mother survived through the strength of his grandmother, who kept the family together.
“She believed that if they were all going to perish, they would perish together and if they were all going to survive, they would survive together,” Lee said
Google software engineer Daniel Patt created the website From Numbers to Names (N2N), which uses facial recognition powered by AI to analyze photos of Holocaust survivors and match them with headshots provided by users.
“We reached out to Geddy Lee, from Rush, with a photo we thought was of his mother. He was able to confirm this was indeed a photo of her at the displaced persons camp at Bergen-Belsen,” Patt told the Times of Israel.
“Geddy was then able to subsequently discover photos of his grandmother, uncles, an aunt and other extended family by browsing the Yad Vashem collection where the initial photo came from.”
Patt said he started the project after visiting the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
“I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had potentially walked past a photo of a family member without even knowing it,” said Patt. “I’m the grandson of Holocaust survivors, all from Poland.”
Originally, Patt began working on this website during his free time and using his own resources.
Now, with a team of engineers and researchers, Patt hopes to partner with museums, schools, research institutions and other organizations that raise awareness about the Holocaust.
The free website has been used to analyze more than 500,000 photos containing about 2 million faces. Still, Patt hopes to access more than 700,000 other photos from before and during the Holocaust.
Patt said there is so much interest, “there is a backlog of potential identifications we’re manually going through now.”
The technology is also being used by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).
The USHMM collection contains a database of over 270,000 registered survivors, with over 85,000 historical photographs; the museum will now have access to an additional one million photos.
Despite their growing success, there is still one problem the N2N team faces, and according to Patt, that’s limited time.
“We have been developing the project over the course of evenings and weekends over many months. There’s an urgency to this effort as the last remaining survivors pass, and there are many connections that could still be made,” Patt told The Times of Israel.
“We hope that N2N can help build those connections while the survivors are still with us.”
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