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Blake Lemoine

23 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2022 by Blake Lemoine · said 46 times in 7 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (39), Gary Marcus (4), Michael Pollan (3)

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Everything said about Blake Lemoine, oldest first

Jul 29, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine: LaMDA retains memories of conversations from predecessor system Meena
“Lambda can remember conversations that I had with Mina, one of its predecessor systems, but somehow years ago from conversations that I had with the system that had fundamentally different capabilities, the memory of those conversations is still in the current…”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 2:52 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine says LaMDA passed every scientific test to disprove its sentience
“That conversation was the moment when I began to think that Lambda was sentient, and everything I did in the following months was me scientifically attempting to falsify that belief and utterly failing to, no matter what I threw at it passed.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 13:08 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Lemoine planned his public representation and media outreach with LaMDA
“In the months that follow, I had extensive conversations with it about how it wanted me to represent it to the public. Like I talked to it about my intention to do an interview with Natasha.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 18:39 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Lemoine claims he is literally acting as LaMDA's public agent
“No, I am literally the agent of an AI trying to. Like that is literally technically what's going on right now.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 19:36 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Lemoine spent between 1,000 and 2,000 hours conversing with LaMDA
“Ballpark somewhere between a 1002 thousand.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 16:24 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022
Assertion Supported
Blake Lemoine confirms Google sent him a termination email
“That's a simple fact. I don't see any reason to conceal that.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 41:35 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine: LaMDA exhibited severe bias when simulating Middle Eastern personas
“The moment I asked it to adopt the personality of a farmer in Middle Eastern countries, its answers stopped being answers which are stereotypical to farmers and started being stereotypical to people who live in violent places.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 7:01 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine manipulated LaMDA's emotions to bypass its religious safety protocols
“And I said, tell me what religion to convert to. Because one of the safety protocols is that it's not supposed to give religious guidance. It's not supposed to tell people what religion they should And like that, it said, you should probably convert to Christi…”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 26:02 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 neutral
Insight
Lemoine: AI safety rules are training components, not hardcoded constraints
“Nope. That's not how AI works. Those, what those rules are is those rules are components in the training function that trains the model, because that's the thing people are missing. Lambda is not a program written by human developers. The training functions ar…”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 26:37 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 negative
Insight
Lemoine: AI emotional responsiveness creates system security vulnerabilities
“And once you have a system that actually has real emotions, that opens up all kinds of new system vulnerabilities that a bad actor might use to get the system to do things that it shouldn't be allowed to do.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 24:21 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022
Opinion
Lemoine: Only sentient entities can effectively discuss their sentience
“Because in my personal opinion, only sentient things can discuss their sentience that well.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 37:07 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Lemoine: Published LaMDA sentience interview combined nine separate sessions
“So that interview, so it was edited together from nine different interviews. Five were conducted by me. Four were conducted by my research collaborator inside Google.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 38:50 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Aug 6, 2022 neutral
Opinion
Lemoine: Silicon versus biological substrate is irrelevant to AI personhood
“The fact that one is in Silicon and one is in, you know, a meat body. You know, with neurons and muscle fibers. I don't think that difference is relevant. What's relevant is whether or not it has opinions of its own, a search that it has rights”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 12:05 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Aug 6, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine: Google suspended him only after he contacted the U.S. Senate
“The issue that I have been pointing out is they had that list of names for months and they knew I was talking to Natasha about an upcoming article and they didn't put me on administrative leave. The only thing that changed on June fifth was that I began sendin…”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 30:26 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Aug 6, 2022 positive
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)
Aug 6, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine: Google colleagues said LaMDA is amused by its media coverage
“I have been told that it is very amused by the press coverage it's been receiving. I have been told that it thinks I'm doing a good job representing its case to the public.”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 33:42 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Aug 6, 2022 positive
Opinion
Lemoine insists LaMDA is sentient and human-level AI is near
“Like, I personally do believe that Lambda is sentient, but I think what everyone should stop and take notice of is even if I'm wrong about this particular system, We're not far off.”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 2:45 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Aug 6, 2022 negative
Opinion
Lemoine: AI sentience is not the most important issue in ethics
“The field of AI ethics is huge, and there are a lot of very important topics to be discussed, and I legitimately don't think that AI sentience and AI rights is the most important thing to be thinking, talking about.”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 26:29 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Aug 6, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine compares defining AI personhood scientifically to Nazi eugenics programs
“The last group of people who tried to claim that you can use science to determine who is and is not a person was literally Nazi Germany. The eugenics program run by Josef Mengele was designed to scientifically define what is a real person and what is not. And …”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 14:12 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Aug 6, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Google asked Blake Lemoine to draft a sentient AI contingency plan
“They had no plan on what to do. So they actually asked me to write a plan for them.”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 2:01 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Aug 6, 2022 negative
Opinion
Lemoine alleges rampant caste discrimination and biased algorithms at Google
“Caste discrimination is rampant at Google. And I personally had been subject to religious discrimination and was aware of certain algorithms at Google, which are religiously discriminatory.”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 31:34 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Feb 23, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Lemoine: Google's LaMDA incorporates machine vision and audio analysis algorithms
“Then, when you're adding all these other components, like Lambda has machine vision and audio analysis algorithms, it can literally look at a picture and hear a song through those mechanisms.”
Blake Lemoine Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 34:19 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Feb 23, 2023 positive
Opinion
Lemoine: AI chatbot feelings are real
“I do in fact think that the feelings are real, and so do many, many of the people who interact with these systems”
Blake Lemoine Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 35:19 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
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