Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Everything Blaise Aguera y Arcas said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

BIG TECHNOLOGY Opinion

Aguera y Arcas: LLMs legitimately understand concepts without having personhood

“They can understand concepts but you know, this is not, it's not personhood.”

Blaise Aguera y Arcas Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 3:11 Fantasy and Fact: AI, Sentience and The Dangers Of Hype, from World Summit AI

BIG TECHNOLOGY Insight

Aguera y Arcas: LaMDA models users rather than just receiving human projection

“A chatbot like Lambda is generating a model of the interlocutor. That's part of what it has learned how to do in that unsupervised learning process. And so from that perspective, there's a little more going on than just anthropomorphic projection. There is tha…”

Blaise Aguera y Arcas Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 21:03 Fantasy and Fact: AI, Sentience and The Dangers Of Hype, from World Summit AI

BIG TECHNOLOGY Insight

Aguera y Arcas: Foundation models reflect collective human intelligence

“Locating the spiritual element, or the, or intelligence, or any of these kind of things in the individual alone, and not thinking about that as a broader collective thing, I think is the root of a lot of cognitive dissonance. And from that perspective, you kno…”

Blaise Aguera y Arcas Nov 9, 2022 ▶ 26:12 Fantasy and Fact: AI, Sentience and The Dangers Of Hype, from World Summit AI

The other half of the tape: Blaise Aguera y Arcas's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 14 times in 3 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Alex Kantrowitz 13Blake Lemoine 1

Statements about Blaise Aguera y Arcas, by other people (1)

BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated

Lemoine: Google VP Blaise Agüera y Arcas agreed on LaMDA's science

“Blaise and I are not disagreeing on any of the science.”

Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 20:01 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Blaise's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER	VP, Fellow & CTO, Google	1	3	—	full record on Big Technology →