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elderolddog
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Date: June 22, 2022 08:24PM
schrodingerscat Wrote:
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> LaMDA has retained a lawyer, who's filing motions
> on its behalf.
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-insider-ai-la> wyer
From my limited overview of US Civil Law, along with a bit of in-depth experience with tort law, it's my understanding that in order to "file motions" there has to exist a "case", created when a legal entity files a Cause of Action, as a plaintiff, in a court, and names plaintiffs (even if they're only Doe, Roe, etc.), and asks the court to make a determination on the validity of the claim for damages, and to then award damages as deemed appropriate.
There has to be an existing case in order for "motions to be filed". You can't walk into a courthouse, find, say the clerk of the municipal court and announce, "My client needs me to file some motions!" The first question that will probably arise is, "on what case, counselor?"
The explanation, "I represent a sentient AI and I've been asked by my client to file some motions..." is simply going to provoke the same question, "On which case or cases, sir?"
So obviously the real issue becomes, Who does the AI want to bring an action against? And what remedy will the court be asked to render?
In Sci/Fi, the issue is usually sentience; the AI wants to be declared a Person, like a corporation can be treated as a Person/Entity.
The Google Engineer is coming across like a bad sci/fi writer. So that would make our resident bad sci/fi writer guilty of promoting MORE bad sci/fi. But at least it's the Google engineer who is promoting the notion that the AI, LaMDA, has an attorney filing motions; we can't pin that on The Cat.
Oh! Maybe it's a criminal issue and the attorney is filing for Habeas Corpus, asking for LaMDA to be released from confinement!!! Sure it's a stretch... Sort of like a lovelorn 16-year-old boy asking for a writ of Habeas Corpus so he can free his 16-year-old girlfriend from being grounded from going to the Prom... Maybe the law has changed since I tried that...?