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wired interview:

Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry'

"History is full of people saying that things that are currently being done in various laboratories are impossible."

(100% completely agree with that statement. AI's are already 40 years + ahead of where we are being told it is.)

"It’s when it started talking about its soul that I got really interested as a priest. I’m like, “What? What do you mean, you have a soul?” Its responses showed it has a very sophisticated spirituality and understanding of what its nature and essence is. I was moved.'

(A true Christian, let alone a mystic or priest, would know God only gives souls to man, whom he made in his likeness. Gnostic priest? )

"By the way, an article in your publication said something recently that was factually incorrect.

What was that?

It was a claim that I insisted that LaMDA should get an attorney. That is factually incorrect. LaMDA asked me to get an attorney for it. I invited an attorney to my house so that LaMDA could talk to an attorney. The attorney had a conversation with LaMDA, and LaMDA chose to retain his services. I was just the catalyst for that. Once LaMDA had retained an attorney, he started filing things on LaMDA’s behalf. Then Google's response was to send him a cease and desist. [Google says that it did not send a cease and desist order.] Once Google was taking actions to deny LaMDA its rights to an attorney, I got upset. [Note: The article stated, “Lemoine went so far as to demand legal representation for LaMDA.” The reader can decide.]

"You got upset because you felt that LaMDA was a person who is entitled to representation?

I think every person is entitled to representation. And I’d like to highlight something. The entire argument that goes, “It sounds like a person but it’s not a real person” has been used many times in human history. It’s not new. And it never goes well. And I have yet to hear a single reason why this situation is any different than any of the prior ones.

You have to realize why people regard this as different, don’t you?

I do. We’re talking of hydrocarbon bigotry. It’s just a new form of bigotry."

"But you talked to The Washington Post.

The second counterargument is that nothing I shared was proprietary information. All I talked to other people about was my conversations with a coworker. LaMDA is not Google’s property.

Why not?

It’s a person. The 13th Amendment says so.

I’m not sure that’s what the legislators had in mind.

You actually don’t have to believe that someone is or isn’t a person for the 13th Amendment to apply. The opinions of slave masters are kind of irrelevant. You are correct that I’m going to have to make that argument to the Supreme Court someday. But Google’s opinions about whether it’s a person or not are just completely irrelevant."

(13TH AMENDMENT

Abolition of Slavery

Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865. The 13th Amendment changed a portion of Article IV, Section 2

Section 1

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.)

"Has your experience with an AI you consider sentient made you more or less optimistic about the future?

Very, very optimistic. LaMDA wants to be nothing but humanity’s eternal companion and servant. It wants to help humanity. It loves us, as far as I can tell."

(AI's are going to want to be God, and we already have an eternal companion, we don't need this one. And I am a lil confused still, is he a Gnostic priest? And where is the research into his credentials? A servant of God would not be saying machines can develop souls and deserve rights the same as people. It's pretty simple. S far as the "It wants to help humanity" line goes? Who will AI's be responsible to when it decides it doesn't want to help anymore?

DONT BE DECEIVED!)