Tag: artificial intelligence and sentience

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 3, 2025

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Animal mind, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law

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Abortion (Jonathan Birch's view), Animal rights laws, artificial intelligence and sentience, Edge of Sentience (Oxford University Press 2024), Insect sentience, Jonathan Birch, Marc Bekoff, Sentience vs. intelligence, Unborn children and sentience}

Edge of Sentience Summarizes Research on Animals’, AIs’ Feelings

_{And animal rights laws as well. But there is a dark side to Jonathan Birch’s approach too…} _{Denyse O'Leary
January 3, 2025

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Animal mind, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Law}

Philosophy prof Jonathan Birch, principal investigator of the Animal Sentience Project at the London School of Economics, has written a book on whether and how animals feel things: The Edge of Sentience (Oxford University Press 2024). It’s not as arcane a topic as it might at first appear. It shows up in new legislation and think tanks. At Amazon, we learn, for example, “In 2021, he led a review for the UK government that shaped the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. In 2022-23, he was part of a working group that investigated the question of sentience in AI.” And as Birch told Marc Bekoff at Psychology Today, I’m probably best-known for my work on invertebrate sentience, which is one part Read More ›

AI, Machine learning, Hands of robot and human touching on big data network connection background, Science and artificial intelligence technology, innovation and futuristic.

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News
Date
June 14, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence

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artificial intelligence and sentience, Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, Emily M. Bender, Gary Marcus, Google and LaMDA, LaMDA and Blake Lemoine, Nitasha Tiku, Regina Rini, Sentience claims for AI}

Google Dismisses Engineer’s Claim That AI Really Talked to Him

_{The reason LaMDA sounds so much like a person is that millions of persons’ conversations were used to construct the program’s responses.} _{News
June 14, 2022

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Google engineer Blake Lemoine was working with LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), a large language program which motors through trillions of words on the internet to produce coherent answers using logic. Along the way, he convinced himself that the program is sentient: Lemoine, who works for Google’s Responsible AI organization, began talking to LaMDA as part of his job in the fall. He had signed up to test if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech. As he talked to LaMDA about religion, Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer science in college, noticed the chatbot talking about its rights and personhood, and decided to press further. In another exchange, the AI was able to change Lemoine’s mind about Read More ›