Alphabet Inc. (GOOG)旗下谷歌的软件工程师Blake Lemoine告诉该公司,他认为其对话应用语言模型(简称LaMDA)是一个人,具有权利,可能还有灵魂。LaMDA是一个内部系统,用于构建模仿语音的聊天机器人。
谷歌发言人Brian Gabriel说,包括伦理学家和技术专家在内的公司专家已经评估了Lemoine的说法,谷歌通知他,相关证据并不支持他的说法。这位发言人表示,Lemoine正在休行政假,但未予提供进一步的细节,称这是一个长期的私人性质的人事问题。《华盛顿邮报》(The Washington Post)早些时候报道了Lemoine的说法和他被谷歌停职的情况。
Gabriel 在一份电子邮件声明中说:“数以百计的研究人员和工程师与LaMDA进行了对话,就我们所知,没有其他人像Blake那样对LaMDA进行了广泛的认定或拟人化。”
在该研究进行的大部分时间里,搜索关键词“Fort Detrick”,搜索结果的第一位都是一段标题为“How terrifying is the history of U.S. Fort Detrick lab?”(美国德特里克堡实验室的历史有多可怕?)的视频。该视频强调这间实验室对危险病原体,包括新型冠状病毒的近亲的研究。
据哈佛大学(Harvard)索伦斯坦媒介、政治和公共政策研究中心(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy)主任Joan Donovan称,对于一些重点词条,比如“Xinjiang terrorism”(新疆恐怖主义)或者Adrian Zenz这个名字,中国官方媒体机构发布的信息常常能够在网络搜索结果(通常会优先考虑衡量信息来源质量的指标)占据靠前位置,这反映出中国政府建立了一个强大的信息网络。
YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese-language phrases related to criticism of the country’s ruling Communist Party (CCP).
Comments left under videos or in live streams that contain the words “共匪” (“communist bandit”) or “五毛” (“50-cent party”) are automatically deleted in around 15 seconds, though their English language translations and Romanized Pinyin equivalents are not.
The term “共匪” is an insult that dates back to China’s Nationalist government, while “五毛,” (or “wu mao”) is a derogatory slang term for internet users paid to direct online discussion away from criticism of the CCP. The name comes from claims that such commenters are paid 50 Chinese cents per post.
Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill With DeepMind-Powered AI – Bloomberg: “In recent months, the Alphabet Inc. unit put a DeepMind AI system in control of parts of its data centers to reduce power consumption by manipulating computer servers and related equipment like cooling systems. It uses a similar technique to DeepMind software that taught itself to play Atari video games, Hassabis said in an interview at a recent AI conference in New York. The system cut power usage in the data centers by several percentage points, ‘which is a huge saving in terms of cost but, also, great for the environment,’ he said.”