Lemoine insists LaMDA is sentient and human-level AI is near
Blake Lemoine · Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism) · Aug 6, 2022 · at 2:45
Former Google AI engineer Blake Lemoine explains his stance on the sentience of Google's conversational AI model LaMDA.
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“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.”
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