Google chatbots spark controversy

 Although robots with awakened consciousness and independent thinking often appear in film, television and literature, the question of "whether artificial intelligence (AI) can have personality consciousness" has actually been debated by physicists, psychologists, and computer scientists For decades, there is still no conclusion.

The latest wave of wide-ranging discussions about the AI ​​awakening in the industry was sparked by a Google employee named Blake Lemoine. Blake works in Google's AI ethics department, where his job is to test whether Google's chatbot, LaMDA, produces discriminatory language or hate speech when it communicates with humans. On June 11, Blake publicly exposed a 21-page document titled "Is LaMDA Conscious?", which detailed the chat records with LaMDA in the past six months. Blake believes that LaMDA Consciousness has arisen, with the IQ of a seven- or eight-year-old child.

In this regard, Google said that the company's team, including ethicists and technical experts, has been reviewed according to Google's artificial intelligence principles, but there is no evidence that LaMDA is conscious. At the same time, on June 13, Google asked Blake to take paid leave on the grounds of breaching a non-disclosure agreement, which in Blake's view was a "prelude" to Google's dismissal.

Risks of Using AI to Grow Food Are Nonnegligible

Imagine a field of wheat stretching to the horizon, where flour is being grown that will be made into bread to feed the people of the city. Imagine all the power to till, plant, fertilize, monitor and harvest this land is delegated to artificial intelligence: algorithms that control drip irrigation systems, self-driving tractors and combine harvesters, smart enough to make decisions about the weather and the weather reaction. the exact needs of the crop. Then imagine a hacker screwing things up.

“The idea of ​​smart machines running a farm is not science fiction.” —Assaf Chakol

A new risk analysis, recently published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, warns that the future use of artificial intelligence in agriculture poses huge potential risks to farms, farmers and food security that are poorly understood.

Drones spray pesticides on wheat fields

"The idea of ​​smart machines running farms is not science fiction. Big companies are already pioneering the next generation of autonomous agricultural robots and decision support systems that will replace humans in the field," said Dr Asaf Tzachor, from the Centre for Existential Risk Research (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, who is the first author of the study. Paper.