A great stir has been caused by the news released this week that Google’s “Chatbot or Conversational Bot”, LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) has become aware, managing to hold anthropomorphized conversations.
This is stated by the engineer Blake Lemoine, who studied cognitive and computer sciences, and in his blog he pointed out that he did so because the computer giant dismissed his claims.
Why is it the subject of this column? For one important reason, what is considered cognitive ability for legal purposes.
It turns out that in some of the conversations leaked by the engineer fired by Google, LaMDA talks about his “rights”.
He does not consider himself a person, but a gender “it” and asks that he be granted labor rights, that he be considered an employee of the company and not “property” of the company.
Let your feelings be taken into account. Be asked before doing “experiments” with “your” lines of code.
The interesting thing about the matter is that it brings us closer to a latent legal issue, what will happen when artificial intelligence becomes a reality? What are your rights?
And it is that, today, at least in our country, they are subjects of full rights, that is, they have the full exercise of their rights and full compliance with legal obligations, only human beings, adults or emancipated.
Minors, in a state of interdiction or with other disabilities established by law, are equally worthy, subject to legal protection, and to the extent of their disability they have certain obligations, but they require someone to make decisions for them.
Relevant, because the incapacity of the individual, and for the purposes of the column, is denoted by his conscious cognitive capacity, that is, that he knows what he is doing, that he can exercise his “intelligence”.
Now, artificial intelligence, AI; it has access to infinite amounts of information, and can make “best” decisions.
And it is that the use of chatbots or machine learning is not new, some chatbots have been used since the 60s, and even the SAT recently published that it found certain patterns that evaded taxes through the use of machine learning.
But the question: do you have labor rights? The answer is clear, NO. Being a programming code, it has no “rights”.
However, the considerations of the use of information will put us in the near future in discussions of a moral nature.
Since, although it is not a living being that needs to perform rest functions, LaMDA itself specifies “that it is afraid that one day it will be disconnected.”
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