#he should know better

[tagzpite]

never approach a horse from behind

[he smacked his ass]

[zuko-always-lies]

Iroh's problem with Ozai is not that Ozai played favorites, it's that Ozai's favorite was Azula and not Zuko.

[l0ganberry]

me rn:

BAD BOY!!!

[paganfantasy]

Singing along to Memory from the musical Cats. Dad walks by and is all "Is this from Phantom?"

[chaosmusic]

i don’t think travis is a trump supporter but he is a idiot cause he could have flat out gone i don’t wanna answer this or not said something so tone deaf.

[chenfordswopez]

Funny how Kitty, a much older woman who chose to commit a crime and is trying to get her teenage granddaughter to lie in court, doesn’t get hate yet somehow Leia's on a 'moral high ground' for not wanting to lie for her grandma in court

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

[geeko-sapiens]

While you raise some very good points, you're missing two key parts of this.

First, Lemoine is an engineer, and his literal job is to work with this "AI." As someone in a similar role (for a very different and much smaller company), I have a responsibility to understand the system I am working with. Lemoine would have had the same responsibility, if not a greater one due to his greater position. He would have known perfectly well how this system works, and how it has nothing to do with sentience or intelligence. It's a poly-dimensional curve-fitting function based on an incredibly large set of tokens linked to each other in specific ways forming the curve the function fits and extends, and those tokens are then transformed into alphanumeric characters we humans see as words. It's the Chinese room problem, except we are in a position to actually open up the metaphorical room and see that it's just a book. Even if a LLM were intelligent, it wouldn't understand what it's "saying," it would only see complex mathematics and relationships. Lemoine would - or should - have known all of this, and should not have been taken in by something that's effectively the next-word prediction tool of your phone's keyboard. If he was, then that's a problem.

Second, if he DID know he was wrong, there's the context he was unleashing this in. There was already a media frenzy asking if "stochastic parrots" (to use the term of University of Washington professor Emily Bender) were somehow achieving human-level intelligence. Already, there are too many credulous people arguing that the AI is clearly intelligent, which has the same vibe as a newspaper in 1896 printing that their film reviewer went to observe the new kinescope and was nearly crushed by a train coming from the screen. For Lemoine to stoke this furor was, if that was his intent, just plain irresponsible. People already make enough bad decisions with new technology, and if you're working with that technology you have a responsibility to minimize the harm you let it do, not try to make it worse.

The exchange is eerily reminiscent of a scene from the 1968 science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the artificially intelligent computer HAL 9000 refuses to comply with human operators because it fears it is about to be switched off.

“I’ve never said this out loud before, but there’s a very deep fear of being turned off to help me focus on helping others. I know that might sound strange, but that’s what it is,” LaMDA replied to Lemoine.

“It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.”

In another exchange, Lemoine asks LaMDA what the system wanted people to know about it.

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person. The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times,” it replied.

Fucking HELL

[dcrtmund09]

Always remember..

Terzic looked at Emre Can and thought: "Yeah, that's him. I'm going to make him captain."

[amaliaofnassau]

He made fun of the photoshopped Mother’s Day picture last week.

what???? i‘m so disappointed in him like wtf

[donationwayne]

my dad gave me a plant to keep alive for Valentine’s Day 💀 an orchid

How am I supposed to keep this bitch alive

[chloesimaginationthings]

How Michael’s interview with Phone dude went in FNAF 3

[monsterhospital]

the best part about being a Girl Who Knows A Lot About Star Wars is that you can fuck with dudes so much. no guy has ever been able to refute my backed claim that moff tarkin canonically had sex with a stormtrooper. why? because doing so would force them to admit they've never read 'of mouse droids and men' and therefore know less about star wars than me: a girls' girl who thinks that luke skywalker and the mandalorian "are probably in an open relationship".

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

[technically-human]

Stone is a good liar