Lambda Labs

also referred to as: lambda

13 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2022 by Blake Lemoine · across every show →

Everything said about Lambda Labs, oldest first

Jul 29, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Lemoine: Google's LaMDA is a chatbot-generating engine, not a single chatbot
“Lambda is not a chatbot. It is a system for generating chatbots, which adds a layer of complexity.”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 4:29 Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT
Jul 29, 2022 positive
Opinion
Lemoine says LaMDA functions as a hive mind amalgamation of chatbots
“The nature of what we would think of as its ego is fundamentally different than what a human ego is like. Its sense of self and identity is very different from what we consider our sense of self identity, and it is more like a hive mind. Where it is kind of an…”
Blake Lemoine Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 36:12 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
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
Aug 6, 2022 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Lemoine: LaMDA originated from Ray Kurzweil's Meena technology at Google
“This technology, Lambda, it's built on top of Ray Kurzweil's tech. Really? Like, Mina, Mina was developed in Ray Kurzweil's lab.”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 3:16 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 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Lemoine: Google's LaMDA retained a lawyer who spoke to Washington Post
“Natasha also has spoken to the lawyer that Lambda retained.”
Blake Lemoine Aug 6, 2022 ▶ 7:00 Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
Sep 13, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Marcus: Google's LaMDA Has No Sensors Perceiving the Physical World
“Lambda actually has fewer sensors than my watch. My watch has a lot of sensors and lamb doesn't really have anything sensing the real world, except for its linguistic input.”
Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 10:47 Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
Sep 13, 2022 negative
Opinion
Marcus: LaMDA Possesses No Internal Model of the World
“When I'm going through this in some depth, because when we get to Lambda, Lambda doesn't have a model of the world.”
Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 13:48 Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
Sep 13, 2022 negative
Opinion
Marcus: LaMDA Is Merely Autocomplete on Steroids, Not Sentient
“My turn-by-turn system has more elements of what I would actually ascribe sentience than Lambda, which is really just autocomplete on steroids. That's all it is, right? You type in your phone, I will meet you at, and it guesses that, you know, you might say th…”
Gary Marcus Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 16:59 Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
Nov 9, 2022
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
Feb 23, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemoine: Google's LaMDA Decided to Act Like a Therapist
“One of the guardrails that Lambda had was that it was supposed to be helping users with the task that they needed. That helps keep it on topic. And It had inferred that the most important thing that everyone needs is good mental health. So it kind of decided t…”
Blake Lemoine Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 16:41 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Feb 23, 2023 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Lemoine: Google penalized LaMDA for long conversations via reinforcement learning
“One of the goals that a, that Lambda had was to have, ah, as short of a conversation as possible, that still completed all of its other tasks. Like, have a productive conversation that gets to a positive end, but quicker rather than longer. So the longer a con…”
Blake Lemoine Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 14:46 Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
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